Worksheets"The Veldt" Test: Elements of Literature
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Class
Date
1.
PLOT: Which is not a piece of evidence from the beginning of the story 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 peoples' thoughts.
d)
The children can televise messages home to their parents.
2.
COMPREHENSION: The children's nursery is an advanced piece of technology that allows a person's thoughts to seemingly come to life through virtual reality. The parents become concerned when the children are spending the majority of their time in an African Veldt. Why does this particular scene in the nursery (the African Veldt) concern the parents so much?
a)
The parents are jealous that the kids are more interested in the lions.
b)
The parents want the kids to spend more time outside.
c)
The scene in the African veldt is violent and it makes the parents feel nervous.
d)
The mom doesn't like vultures.
3.
INFERENCE: Why are the children so strongly opposed to (against) turning off the nursery?
a)
The children are afraid of the lions and think they will be angry if they shut them off.
b)
They are more emotionally connected to the nursery than they are to their parents.
c)
They have given in to the nursery and it controls them.
4.
LITERARY DEVICES: The following is an example of what literary device?
“...and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts.”
a)
characters
b)
irony
c)
sensory details
d)
personification
5.
LITERARY DEVICES: All of the following are examples of foreshadowing, except:
a)
finding the bloody wallet and scarf in the nursery
b)
the plan to take a vacation away from all the technology
c)
when George goes into the nursery and tries to change it, he cannot.
d)
the screams in the nursery sound somewhat familiar
6.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: The following is an example of what type of figurative language?
"The stove was busy humming to itself."
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
allusion
d)
personification
7.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: following is an example of what type of figurative language?
"He could feel the hot sun on his neck like a hot paw."
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
allusion
8.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: the following is an example of what type of figurative language?
"Wendy's eyes were blue marbles."
a)
metaphor
b)
personifification
c)
allusion
d)
hyperbole
9.
COMPREHENSION: Which of the following statements is the best objective summary of what the psychologist, David McClean says in in the middle of page 22 when he comes to analyze the nursery? (Read just the paragraph that starts with, "Everything. Where before they had a Santa Claus, now they have a Scrooge.")
a)
The family is in danger of getting too lazy in their home and may forget how to do tasks.
b)
The parents have given their children everything they could want out of laziness, but have not given them affection and attention
c)
The parents need to become givers again like Santa to their children because they are confused by the nursery that always gives to them
d)
The parents have been so generous with their gifts to their children. It's not their fault the kids are spoiled.
10.
INFERENCE: After Mr. and Mrs. Hadley are trapped inside the nursery, Wendy says to David McClean that “They’ll be here directly”. What can we infer happens to the parents in the story's falling action (the events after the parents are surrounded by lions- the part that Bradbury left out)? Choose the option that can best be supported by the text.
a)
The parents are really alive but lost somewhere in the veldt.
b)
The parents are dead, but the children recreated them with their imaginations.
c)
The parents will arrive at some point but will be nearly tortured to death.
d)
The parents are dead and Wendy is lying to Mr. McClean.
11.
LITERARY DEVICES:
The door slammed.
“Wendy, Peter!” George Hadley and his wife whirled and ran back to the door.
“Open the door!” cried George Hadley, trying the knob. “Why, they’ve locked it from the outside! Peter!” He beat at the door. “Open up!” He heard Peter’s voice outside, against the door.
“Don’t let them switch off the nursery and the house,” he was saying. Mr. and Mrs. George Hadley beat at the door. “Now, don’t be ridiculous, children. It’s time to go. Mr. McClean’ll be here in a minute and...”
And then they heard the sounds. The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats. The lions. Mr. Hadley looked at his wife and they turned and looked back at the beasts edging slowly forward crouching, tails stiff. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed. And suddenly they realized why those other screams bad sounded familiar.
What word best describes the mood the author creates in this passage?
a)
excited
b)
suspenseful
c)
bored
d)
lighthearted
12.
LITERARY DEVICES: What word best describes Bradbury’s tone (attitude) toward society's increasing use of technology?
a)
celebratory
b)
joyful
c)
interested
d)
warning
13.
LITERARY DEVICES: Which of the following best states a theme of the story?
a)
the dangers of technology
b)
George and Lydia Hadley should have been paying more attention to their children
c)
People should be careful with how much they allow technology to take over their responsibilities.
d)
Children should not be allowed to have any technology
14.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: The author wanted Wendy and Peter in this story to remind the reader of the characters, Wendy and Peter in the book, Peter Pan. This is an example of:
a)
a metphor
b)
a simile
c)
personification
d)
an allusion
15.
LITERARY DEVICES: The idea that the Hadleys bought the advanced technology of The Happy Life Home to create a healthy outlet for their children and to make life easier, but the technology ended up killing them, is an example of:
a)
foreshadowing
b)
imagery
c)
irony
d)
theme
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