Vocabulary
This is a person who is blamed for something they did not do...
What is a scapegoat?
Where does Tommy get his ideas?
What is a comic book?
This is the setting of the teleplay...
What is Maple Street, USA; late summer; early evening (6:43 P.M.)?
This is the number of "aliens" watching over Maple Street.
What is 2?
This is the word for a play written for television
What is a teleplay
This word means that you can't take your eyes off something; you're mesmerized.
What is transfixed?
This character is the "voice of reason" among the people on Maple Street.
Who is Steve Brand?
This is the first sign that something is wrong on Maple Street...
What is the flash of light that goes across the sky?
This is the climax of the story.
What is when Charlie shot Pete Van Horn?
The conflict of this story
What is, will the people on Maple Street find out what caused the power failure, and solve the mystery?
This word means to ingrain (or grow) something (like a belief) inside someone over time; Mr. Myagi did this to Daniel-son.
What is instill?
This person was accused by Les Goodman of talking to "aliens" with his ham radio set.
Who is Steve Brand?
The meteor causes...
What is the electricity and all powered machines to go out.
The residents of Maple Street began accusing their neighbors because...
What are...
-strange things were happening, and they were scared and panicked.
-they did not want to be blamed and tried to deflect attention on to someone else.
These are the instructions in the text of a play; these instructions tell us what the actors should do, where they should stand, what tone of voice they should use, their position on the stage, etc.
What are stage directions
This word means to be determined, and to never, ever give up!
What is persistent!
This character shot and killed Pete Van Horn without realizing it.
Who is Charlie?
Name four characters who are accused of being the cause of all of the problems.
Who are Les Goodman, Steve, Charlie, and, finally, Tommy?
From the aliens' conversation, you can infer that Maple Street...
What is no different than any other town or city in the world?
An inference is...
What is an educated guess based on evidence in the text
This means feeling hatred or being hostile (angry and mean) towards another person.
What is antagonism?
This person's car started all by itself.
Who is Les Goodman?
Name the real monsters of the story
Who are the residents of Maple Street?
The resolution of the story was that
What is that Figure One and Figure Two are behind the problems on Maple Street, or that Maple Street is left in chaos.
Describe what caused the neighbors to evolve into a mob?
What is that they grew fearful and emotional, and lost their ability to think logically and use reason to sort out their problems...