The Veldt Final Review

What word best describes Bradbury’s tone (attitude) toward the increasing use of technology?

• Cautious

• Excited

• Encouraging

• Pleased

What is being inferred by the following line from the end of the story?  "And suddenly they realized why those other screams had sounded familiar."

• They heard the screams of the children

• They heard the scream of vultures

• They heard the lions dying in the virtual world

• They heard their own screams

When the parents ask Peter and Wendy why the nursery is stuck in Africa, the children say, "There's no Africa in the nursery."  Then, Wendy runs to the nursery, and comes back declaring there is no Africa scene in the nursery.  Based on the fact that the parents saw Africa earlier, what can be inferred about the children's answer?

• The nursery is broken and no one knows it.

• The children are lying, and Wendy ran ahead to change the room scene.

• The parents are causing Africa to show on the walls.

• Peter is innocent. Wendy is to blame for the scene of Africa.

The conflict in the story is between

• Peter and Wendy

• Lydia and David McCLean

• The kids and their parents

• George and Lydai

Provide textual evidence to support that The Veldt is set in the future.

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Which sentence best illustrates the theme of this story?

• "And suddenly they realized why those other screams had sounded familiar."

• "Geroge, you'll have to change your life. Like too many others, you've built it around creature comforts."

• "I wouldn't let them go to New York."

• "It's just that the nursery is different now than it was."

The reader can infer that the lions in "The Veldt" symbolize...

• Love

• Africa

• Power

• Weakness

The Veldt is written in which person?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

Which word means an African grassland?

• paranoia

• jaunt

• awry

• veldt

Which one of the following is NOT an example of foreshadowing in the story?

• "They almost got us!" Lydia says when the lions run towards them at the beginning of the story.

• At dinner they ate alone, for Wendy and Peter were at a special plastic carnival.

• "What is that?" Lydia asked.  "An old wallet of mine . . . there were drops of saliva on it. . ."

• "Those screams- they sound familiar."