English 10 Name ________________________________

“The Veldt” Guided Reading Questions Date _________________________________

As you read the story, stop at the marked places and answer the following questions.

1. What are two pieces of evidence (direct 8. In the past, what had Peter and Wendy
quotes) that show that this is a futuristic imagined in the nursery? What does this
home. change in their thought patterns tell the
a. reader about them?

b.

2. What is George’s attitude toward the 9. What do Peter and Wendy do to the nursery
nursery? when they get home? Why do they do this?

3. What is Lydia’s attitude toward the veldt?

10. What does George find in the veldt? Describe

it.

4. What are a few character traits to describe

Peter based upon what George and Lydia’s
conversation? Why? 11. What past event has made Peter and Wendy
mad at their parents?

5. Explain how Lydia feels about her role as a

mother based on her conversation with
George.
12. What can the reader tell about Peter and
George’s relationship based upon their
conversation?

6. Explain how the nursery works.

13. Why would George and Lydia call David

7. Why is George concerned about his children? MacLean, a psychologist, to look at the
nursery?
English 10 Name ________________________________
“The Veldt” Guided Reading Questions Date _________________________________

As you read the story, stop at the marked places and answer the following questions.
AFTER READING
19. What comment is the author, Ray Bradbury,
14. What advice does David MacLean give George making about future technology? Think about
about the nursery and their house? who really parents the children, how Lydia
feels that she doesn't have enough to do, and
the fact that Peter and Wendy think about
death so often.

15. What does David Maclean find in the nursery?

Describe it.

16. “And suddenly they realized why those other

screams had sounded familiar.” What are the
screams that George and Lydia hear earlier in
the story?

17. Explain what happened when George and

Lydia get locked in the nursery at the end of
the story.

18. What are Peter and Wendy doing at the very

end of the story?