"The Veldt" Test

Where do the Hadley children go to imagine different environments?

• A. Kitchen

• B. Bedroom

• C. Nursery

• D. Garage

Which tasks does the Hadley house take care of?

• A. Tying shoes

• B. Washing laundry

• C. Cooking dinner

• D. All of the above

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What kind of relationship do the Hadley children have with their parents?

• A. They fear their parents

• B. They sometimes disagree, but overall it is a positive relationship

• C. They manipulate their parents and get what they want

• D. They love and respect their parents

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does George Hadley decide to do after getting the psychologist's opinion?

• A. Turn off the house

• B. Allow their activities to continue as usual

• C. Limit the time in the nursery

• D. Slowly wean the children of the nursery and the house's gadgets

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

How do the Hadley children respond to their parents' decision to shut down the house?

• A. They are angry but they ultimately understand

• B. They beg for more time in the nursery

• C. They run away from the house to a friends' house

• D. They are happy about the decision

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.6

Which is NOT a piece of evidence in the beginning that lets the reader know the setting is in the future?

• A. The Hadley's home has a nursery with some kind of problem

• B. The Hadley's home "clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep"

• C. The nursery's technology creates images out of your thoughts

• D. The children can televise messages home to their parents

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CCSS.RL.7.1

What BEST represents the exposition of the story?

• A. Lydia and George walked down the hall of their soundproofed HappyLife Home which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed. This house clothed, fed, and rocked them to sleep and played and sang.

• B. The lions came running at them, Lydia bolted and ran.

• C. "That's just it, I feel like I don't belong here. The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt?"

• D. "Open the door!" cried George Hadley, trying the knob. "Why, they've locked it from the outside! Peter!"

• E. A shadow flickered over Mr. McClean's hot face. Many shadows flickered. The vultures were dropping down.

What quote best represents the main problem/conflict in the story?

• A. "We forgot the ketchup,' he said. 'Sorry,' said a small voice within the table, and ketchup appeared."

• B. "What is that?" she asked. "An old wallet of mine," he said.

• C. "You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections."

• D. "Lydia it's off and it stays off. And the whole house dies as of here and now."

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What best represents the rising action in the story? (Events leading to the climax of the story).

• I've taken a few machines from the house and threatened them, a month ago, with closing up the nursery unless they did their homework."

• The lions came running at them. Lydia bolted and ran. Instinctively, George sprang after her. Outside, in the hall, with the door slammed, he was laughing and she was crying, and they both stood appalled at the other's reaction.

• "Everything. Where before they had a Santa Claus now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santas. You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections.

• All of the above.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Which event represents the climax of the story?

• A. The parents getting locked inside the nursery by the children.

• B. George turning the house off.

• C. George calling the psychologist.

• D. The children offering David McClean tea.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4