The veldt

Question 1

1. Why would Mrs. Hadley want a psychologist to come look at the nursery? (1)

Answer 1

Mrs. Hadley wants a psychologist to come look at the nursery because her children are imagining the African veld constantly, she is concerned that it is too dark and cruel for those kids to think of death in such a way that something might be wrong with them psychologically.

Question 2

6. How did Mr. Hadley feel about the Nursery at first? (1)

Answer 2

He admired the nursay. He referred to the mechanical genius who conceived the room and efficiency. mentioned that it was a miracle of mechanical

Question 3

2. What is ironic about the name of the house they are living in? (1)

Answer 3

The “Happy Life Home” is ironic because it doesn’t bring happiness to George and Lydia Hadley. It brings the opposite, making them feel unnecessary. It brings death.

Question 4

4. Was the cost of the nursery a problem for George Hadley? Quote to substantiate. (21

Answer 4

No, “But, nothing is ever too good for our children.”

Question 4

5. What is the “Filthy creatures” Mrs. Hadley is referring to? (1)

Answer 4

The Filthy creatures Mrs. Hadley is referring to is the vultures.

Question 5

3. How big is the nursery? (1)

Answer 5

The nursery is as big as forty feet across by forty feet long and thirty feet high.

Question 6

10. How old are Peter and Wendy? (1)

Answer 6

They are ten-year-old children..

Question 7

8. How do we know that Mr. Hadley also feels unnecessary? (3)

Answer 7

We know Mr. Hadley feels unnecessary because smokes more, drinks more and takes more sedative than usual.

Question 7

7. “You’ve been working too hard”, mxplain why this statement is not correct. (1)

Answer 7

This statement is not correct because she is a housewife, and the house does everything for them. She does not need to do anything

Question 8

9. Excluding the Veldt land, name three other things the kids also imagined in the last year. (3)

Answer 8

Wonderland, the Mock turtle and Dr. Doolittle. (there are more)

Question 8

13. Find one simile in the passage. (1)

Answer 8

Cheeks like peppermint.

Question 8

11. How long has the African Veld been imagined by the children? (1)

Answer 8

For about a month.

Question 9

12. Name the two thing Mr. Hadley commanded the nursery to do but didn’t listen. (2)

Answer 9

To go away and to change into Aladin.

Question 10

14. Name two thing Mr. and Mrs. Hadley found in the nursery. [2]

Answer 10

An old wallet and a scarf.

Question 11

17. What is his advice to Mr. Hadley about the Nursery? (1)

Answer 11

To turn the whole house and the nursery off.

Question 11

16. Who is Mr. David McClean? (1)

Answer 11

The psychologist

Question 12

15. What did Wendy change the Nursery to when Peter asked her to go check on the Nursery? (1)

Answer 12

To Rima and her forest.

Question 13

18. What was the original use of the nursery according to Mr. McClean? (1)

Answer 13

To study the patterns of the child’s mind and help the child.

Question 14

19. What did Mr. McClean sense about Mr. and Mrs. Hadley when asked if he noticed this before?
    (1)

Answer 14

That they had spoiled their children more than most.

Question 15

20 . “The house was full of dead bodies”, who/what is the speaker referring to? (1)

Answer 15

All the machines.

Question 16

22. Does Mr. McClean think that Hadley’s could take care of themselves? Quote to substantiate. (2)

Answer 16

No, “Why, you’d starve tomorrow If something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’t know how to tap an egg”

Question 17

21. Why did those screams sound so familiar? (1)

Answer 17

Because it is their own screams.