"Rules of the Game"
The first name of the main character in this story.
What is Waverly?
These are the people who visit the last living tree.
Who are the boy and his parents?
This is the weather on the day the couple are playing Scrabble.
What is very hot?
They are the parents in the story.
Who are George and Lydia Hadley?
These two stories focus on the relationships between parents and children.
What are "The Veldt" and "Rules of the Game"?
This is the person who receives the chess set as a gift.
Who is Vincent?
This is what happens to the tree at the end of the story.
What is cut it down?
This is the special power of the words in the game.
What is the power to come true?
This is the type of land that the children imagine in the nursery.
What is grassland?
These two stories show the dangers of technology.
What are "The Veldt" and "Autumntime"?
This is the place where the main character and her family live.
Where is Chinatown in San Francisco, CA?
The time in which the story happens
What is the future?
This explodes when the husband plays the word EXPLODES.
What is the air-conditioner?
This is one of the special features of the house.
(several answers are correct)
What is the ability to make dinner?
What is the lights turning on and off without switches?
This is what the games symbolize in "Rules of the Game" and "Death by Scrabble".
(several answers are correct)
What is competition? power? control?
This person teaches the main character how to be better at chess.
Who is Lau Po (the old man in the park)?
This is how they travel to the tree museum.
(several correct answers)
What is the elevator-bus?
What is the monorail?
This is how the wife kills the husband.
What is playing the word DEATH?
This is the father's item that the children leave in the nursery.
What is his wallet?
This is a symbol of wealth in "The Veldt."
(several answers are correct)
What is the modern technology?
What is the father's wallet?
These cause tension in the relationship between the main character and her mother.
What are her mother's pride and control?
This is what the boy takes from the tree museum.
What is an acorn?
This is how the special power the husband tries to get by playing a word.
What is the ability to fly?
Wendy changes the nursery into this kind of scene.
What is a forest?
This is the word the wife plays in "Death by Scrabble" to show her husband that she knows that he is trying to kill her.
What is CAUTION?