Vocabulary
To suggest that someone is guilty
What is "incriminate"?
Where does Tommy get his ideas?
What is "from the comic books he reads"?
Who is Sally? What does she tell her son when Tommy claims one of the neighbors might not be human.
What is Tommy's mom, tells him to stop talking?
How many figures were up in the sky?
What is "Two"?
What are the words that characters speak in a play or drama?
What is "dialogue"?
The tendency to look on the bright side of things
What is "optimism"?
What was the purpose of a narrator in a story?
What is "to give stage directions and help establish the setting"?
What FIRST startles the people on Maple Street? What do they believe it to be?
What is the flash of light and roar from the sky? The meteor?
The Aliens would describe Maple Street as:
A) Brave
B) Unusually Suspicious
C) Totally Evil
D) Quite Predictable
What is "D) quite predictable"?
How is the narration formatted in the play? (2 answers)
What is "spoken by the narrator" and "italicized and in brackets"?
To agree or to express agreement
What is "assent"?
Who used the "ham radio in the basement" excuse for his odd behavior?
Who is Steve?
Why does everyone come out of their house in Act 1?
What is "things are not working, they want to see if everyone else is having the same problem"?
What do you think the aliens predict will happen next?
A) Everything will return to normal
B) The people on Maple Street will destroy themselves
C) Humans will band together and fight the aliens.
D) The people will attack the alien spaceship
What is "B) The people on Maple Streey will destroy themselves."?
What might one theme from our story be?
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An expression of unfriendliness or oppositions.
What is "antagonism"?
Who shot the shadow? Who turned out to be the shadow?
Who is "Charlie" who shot Peter Van Horn?
What the Goodman's neighbor accuse him of that was suspicious. How did he defend himself?
What is "staring up at the sky. He said he had insomnia."?
From the aliens conversation, you can infer that:
A) Maple Street is unique
B) Destroying humans are difficult
C) They have done the same thing in other towns
D) Their own planet it similar to Earth
What is "C) They have done the same thing in other towns."?
What was the name of the street next to Maple...
What is "Floral Street"?
What is a scapegoat? Who were some scapegoats in our story?
What is someone who takes the blame for a group... (Steve, Goodman, Tommy)?
Why does Charlie accuse Tommy?
What is "to divert their attention; Charlie thinks the angry mob is going to kill him"?
Who were the real monsters in our story
Who are THE PEOPLE!!!
What physical description do we receive about the figures?
What is "We get only a vague feeling of form, but nothing more explicit than that"? (They do not have a solid form)
What was one thing that "Woman" said?
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