
The Veldt Test
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English
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9th - 12th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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4 Slides • 12 Questions
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Key Elements of a Literary Text
Setting
Plot
Characterization
Conflict
Point of View
Theme
Tone
We must have a solid understanding of these foundational elements of fiction in order to understand how they add layers of meaning or style to the text.
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We are going to read a second Ray Bradbury story, "The Veldt" in Actively Learn. This is a longer text, with 15 multiple choice questions.
Work Period
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
Now the hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odor at the two people in the middle of the baked veldt-land. The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air.
What does odorophonics mean? Use the context clues in the story to answer.
a device that transports people to different locations.
a device to test your sense of smell.
a device that can produce real smells
a device that creates optical illusions.
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Multiple Choice
What can be 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
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Multiple Choice
Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children's minds and created life to fill their every desire. The children thought lions and there were lions.
What do the words telepathic emanations mean?
sympathetic situations
children's thoughts
angry ideas from children
ideas that can discourage people
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
"I don't know anything", he said, "except that I'm beginning to be sorry that we bought that room for the children. If children are neurotic at all, a room like that----"
What does the word neurotic mean?
having a hard time
having a feeling of being homesick
having trouble telling what is real or not real
having a nerve disease
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
"On you and your sister. If you intersperse this Africa with a little variety--oh, Sweden perhaps, or Denmark or China---"
What does the word intersperse mean?
remaining the same
being too stubborn to change
adding variety
being well-traveled
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
Why did Ray Bradbury use vultures in the story?
He couldn't find a blue bird
The vultures symbolize death
The vultures represent happiness
Bluebirds symbolize bad luck
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Multiple Choice
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