Veldt Assessment Review

Which of the following statements about the children influences/leads to the suspense/frightening mood throughout the story?

• The children are spoiled and rely on technology for everything.

• The children spend most of their time thinking about death.

• The children are only 10 years old.

• The children love their house and technology more than their parents.

What is the impact and meaning of the personification in the excerpt?

“And although their beds tried very hard, the two adults couldn’t be rocked to sleep for another hour.” (Paragraph 149)

• Technology is always able to provide comfort.

• Technology is unable to ease their anxieties.

• Technology offers solutions to daily stresses and frustrations.

• Technology is not always able to provide solutions.

Which element of the story best establishes an ominous mood?

• Setting

• Climax

• Falling action

• resolution

Which statement below best conveys a theme of the story?

• The creative use of technology is useful in advancing society into the future.

• Parents who spoil their children only want the best for them.

• Poor parenting will eventually have a negative impact on the family unit.

• It is not common for technology to interfere with family relationships

Which detail best demonstrates the Hadley’s complete and total reliance on technology and the Happylife Home?

• His wife paused in the middle of the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four. (Paragraph 7)

• “And although their beds tried very hard, the two adults couldn’t be rocked to sleep for another hour.” (Paragraph 149)

• “Why, you’d starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’t know how to tap an egg.” (Paragraph 202)

• “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?” (Paragraph 55)

Which literary technique does the author use in the example? “What is that? she asked “An old wallet of mine,” he said. He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it and the smell of a lion." (page 5)

• foreshadowing

• allusion

• exposition

• Tone

What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

• The baby

• The stove

• The robot maid

• The Nursery

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

• The Hadley’s home “clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep…”

• The Hadley’s home has a nursery with some kind of problem

• The nursery’s technology creates images out of your thoughts

• The children can televise messages home to their parents.

After Mr. and Mrs. Hadley are trapped inside the nursery and killed by the lions, Wendy says to David McClean that “They’ll be here directly” in page 11. What can be inferred by Wendy’s comment?

• It can be inferred that Peter and Wendy recreated the picnic with their imagination.

• Wendy is implying that the parents are fine but lost somewhere in the veldt.

• Wendy is implying that the parents will arrive at some point after they pack up for vacation.

• It can be inferred that Wendy is lying to distract McClean from the truth.

Which statement below best demonstrates the differing perspectives of George and Lydia at the beginning of the story?

• George has admiration for the mechanical genius of the nursery and is amused by Lydia’s skepticism and concern with the nursery

• George is very skeptical of the nursery and is concerned with Lydia’s dismissal of the latest occurrences in the nursery

• George is inattentive, while Lydia is obsessed with the nursery

• George is concerned with the effects of the nursery, while Lydia is inattentive