Vocabulary
A word that means to cause to look guilty.
A. Assent
B. Incriminate
C. Contorted
B. Incriminate
This person killed Pete Van Horn.
A. Tommy
B. Charlie
C. Don Martin
D. Steve Brand
B. Charlie
These two things need to be included in the setting.
A. Who and what
B. When and where
C. Why and how
B. When and where
This first startles the people on Maple Street.
A. The power going out
B. The car starting by itself
C. Tommy talking about aliens
D. The flash of light and roar in the sky
D. The flash of light and roar in the sky
Describe the setting.
A. In the year 2019 in a small farm town during the fall
B. In the future in a city on the planet Jupiter during the winter
C. 1960s suburban neighborhood at the end of summer
C. 1960 suburban neighborhood at the end of summer
A word meaning hostility or friendliness.
A. Incriminate
B. Optimistic
C. Contorted
D. Antagonism
D. Antagonism
This character's car started and stopped all by itself.
A. Charlie
B. Pete Van Horn
C. Steve Brand
D. Les Goodman
D. Les Goodman?
This term describes the lesson or moral of the story.
A. Main idea
B. Plot
C. Theme
C. Theme
Everyone comes out of their houses in Act One due to this.
A. Aliens
B. The spaceship
C. The loss of power
C. The loss of power
The theme of Monsters are due on Maple street is...
A. Never trust aliens.
B. Always listen to children who read comics.
C. Fear turns people into their own worst enemy.
D. Power failures cause people to kill.
C. Fear turns people into their own worst enemy
Twisted or bent out of shape
A. Assent
B. Converge
C. Contorted
C. Contorted
The name of the boy in this story is ____________.
A. Charlie
B. Pete
C. Steve
D. Tommy
D. Tommy
The climax of the play occurs here.
A. When the power goes off
B. When the aliens are talking about the plan
C. When the car starts by itself
D. When Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn
D. When Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn
Les Goodman's neighbors accuse him of this.
A. Turning off the power
B. Building a radio to talk to aliens
C. Staring at the sky in the middle of the night
C. Staring at the sky in the middle of the night
A crowd turns into a mob when...
A. They get too loud.
B. They accuse people of things.
C. They disagree with others.
D. They become dangerous.
D. They become dangerous.
Someone that always looks at the brigher side of things is considered to be _________________.
A. Antagonism
B. Assent
C. Optimistic
C. Optimistic
The number of aliens in this story was ________.
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
C. 2
When an author hints at upcoming events it's called ________________.
A. Inference
B. Foreshadowing
C. Climax
B. Foreshadowing
The aliens rely on this in order for their plan to be successful.
A. Human technology
B. Human pride
C. Human fear
C. Human fear
The power outages are caused by __________.
A. Pete Van Horn
B. Tommy
C. Charlie
D. The aliens
D. The aiens
Someone that is blamed for something is called a _______________.
A. Monster
B. Scapegoat
C. Criminal
B. Scapegoat
Tommy gets all of ideas about aliens from this.
A. Horror movies
B. Books
C. Comic books
D. He made it up.
C. Comic books
Rod Serling's teleplay is considered to be written in this genre.
A. Nonfiction
B. Poem
C. Sci-Fi or Fantasy
C. Sci-Fi or Fantasy
The real monsters in the play are _____________.
A. Aliens
B. Charlie and Tommy
C. The humans
C. The humans
The neighbors use _______________ as reasons to incriminate each other.
A. Comic books
B. Odd/ different behaviors
C. Control of the power
B. Odd/ different behaviors