Characters
Setting
Keywords
Special
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Who is Phillips?

Newsman

100

The name of the city?

New Jersey

100

What is a Meteor?

Falling rock from space.

100

What is the Genre of Invasion from Mars?

Play (radio)

200

Who is Milmuth?

The Farmer

200

What planet did the cylinder come from?

Mars

200

What does the word Professor mean?

Someone educated or a college teacher

200

Is this formal or informal? And why

Wilmuth: Well, I — I ain’t quite sure. I reckon I — I was kinda riled.

Informal

300

Who is Pierson?

The Professor

300

Where did the cylinder crash?

In the ground near a farm
300

A group of people watching something together

Spectators

300

How are people listening to Newsman Phillips

By radio

400

From the pictures in the book, how do we know it happen a long time ago?

People's clothing, old cars

400

What came out of the cylinder?

The Alien

400

What are tentacles?

Legs of the octopus

400

Wilmuth says he was “listening to the radio kinda halfways.

It wasn't listening fully

500

Who was Milmuth listening to talking on the radio

Professor Pierson

500

Why does Carl Phillips speak in a formal way?

He is a newsman

500

How are plays and stories different 

Plays are written with characters and their lines and stories are written in paragraphs.

500

Is it important that Philips describes what is happening? Why

To understand the story

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