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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Characters
Story Events
Story Events
100
This word means a light that turns on and off randomly
What is flickering
100
What do we call the sound you hear when a radio or television is not working?
What is static?
100
The name of the 8 year old sister in the Rivera family.
Who is Elisa?
100
Where did the Rivera family live?
What is New Jersey?
100
When the Rivera family suspected they were in danger, they considered going to this state?
What is Kansas?
200
What is another word for a shooting star?
What is a meteorite, meteor or meteoroid
200
What is the word that describes when a person talks before the other person is finished?
What is interrupting?
200
The name of the oldest Rivera child?
Who is Robbie?
200
The year the story takes place.
What is 1938?
200
What the news reporter said the creature had fired at the sky?
What is a heat ray?
300
What do we call a person who tells what is happening on the radio?
What is an announcer.
300
What is another word that means shocked?
What is stunned?
300
The name of the middle child in the Rivera family?
Who is Richie?
300
The lights were flickering so Mr. Rivera did this.
Why did Mr. Rivera call the electric company?
300
Where Mrs. Rivera had the boys wait while Mr. Rivera took the Plant boys home?
What is the basement?
400
What do we call a person who studies science?
What is a scientist?
400
What is the word that means when something bursts in the air?
What is an explosion?
400
The name of one of the Plant boys?
Who is Billy or David?
400
The announcer first interrupted the radio station to report that several of these have been seen on Mars.
What are explosions?
400
Nobody ever told Elisa anything.
Why was Elisa so upset?
500
What do we call a scientist who studies space?
What is an astronomer?
500
A brass instrument that was used by Louis Armstrong in the story?
What is a cornet?
500
Which character in the Rivera family said, "You kids know there are no such things as aliens. That's all science fiction."
Who is Mr. Rivera?
500
What a reported said he found on a farm in Grovers Mill, New Jersey?
What is a burning object?
500
The name of the book or the author of the book from which the story The Night They Landed was developed?
What is The War of the Worlds or who is Orson Wells?