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Making Predictions in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Answers

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Which of the excerpts from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street best foreshadows that the residents of Maple Street will turn against Les Goodman?

A
“That's Les Goodman's house. He's got lights!”
B
“He always was an odd ball. Him and his whole family. Real odd ball.”
C
“What is this, a gag or something? This a practical joke or something?”
D
“Why I've known Ethel Goodman ever since they moved in. We've been good friends—”
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.As they suddenly start toward the house. In this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. They begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. Steve stands in front of them. For a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but Steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop.STEVEWait a minute . . . wait a minute! Let's not be a mob!The people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.

A
He has managed to remain much more calm and rational than the rest of his neighbors.
B
He has become the main instigator of the mob as they rush toward Les Goodman’s house.
C
He has been taken over by emotions and lost his ability to think sensibly.
D
He thinks the aliens are attacking the neighborhood and he must defend himself.
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.DONAnd [Les Goodman] never did come out to look at that thing that flew overhead. He wasn't even interested.(he turns to the faces in the group, his face taut and serious.)Why? Why didn't he come out with the rest of us to look?CHARLIEHe always was an odd ball. Him and his whole family. Real odd ball.

A
Don is very fond of Les Goodman.
B
Don is an alien from outer space.
C
Don is suspicious of Les Goodman.
D
Don is a patient and thoughtful man.
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.58. LONG SHOT – STEVE 58.As he walks toward them from across the street.STEVEGo ahead, what's my wife said? Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every idiosyncrasy of every single man, woman, and child on the street. And then we might as well set up some kind of a kangaroo court. How about a firing squad at dawn, Charlie, so we can get rid of all the suspects. Narrow them down. Make it easier for you.DONThere's no need gettin' so upset, Steve. It's just that . . . well . . . Myra's talked about how there's been plenty of nights you spent hours down in your basement workin' on some kind of radio or something. Well, none of us have ever seen that radio—

A
The crowd will turn against Steve, believing he is an alien in disguise.
B
Steve will reveal himself to be an invading alien and attack the crowd.
C
Don will apologize to Steve for falsely accusing Steve of being an alien.
D
Steve’s wife will save her husband as the crowd begins to attack him.
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.WOMAN ONE(a little reluctantly)Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.(she looks around the circle of faces.)That's right looking up at the sky as if . . . as if he were waiting for something.(a pause)As if he were looking for something.There's a murmur of reaction from the crowd again.

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The neighbors become more sympathetic toward Les Goodman.
B
The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
C
The neighbors become less frightened of Les Goodman.
D
The neighbors become more protective of Les Goodman.
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.MRS. GOODMANThat's exactly what he does. Why this whole thing it's . . . it's some kind of madness or something.STEVE(nods grimly)That's exactly what it is—some kind of madness.CHARLIE'S VOICE(shrill, from across the street)You best watch who you're seen with, Steve! Until we get this all straightened out, you ain't exactly above suspicion yourself.STEVE(whirling around toward him)Or you, Charlie. Or any of us, it seems. From age eight on up!WOMAN ONEWhat I'd like to know is—what are we gonna do? Just stand around here all night?CHARLIEThere's nothin' else we can do!(he turns back, looking toward Steve and Goodman again.) One of 'em'll tip their hand. They got to.57. CONTINUED 57.STEVE(raising his voice)There's something you can do, Charlie. You could go home and keep your mouth shut. You could quit strutting around like a self-appointed hanging judge and just climb into bed and forget it.

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Steve is frightened of the alien invasion.
B
Steve is an alien in disguise.
C
Steve does not like many of his neighbors.
D
Steve is sensible and unafraid.
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Which excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is an example of direct characterization?

A
Don approaches the group, stops a few feet away to stare toward the house, then looks back toward the group.
B
The screen door opens and Goodman comes out, a man in his early forties who first greets them smiling and then letting the smile fade as he sees the faces.
C
As the people exchange looks. They've all arrived there on an emotion and when hit with a simple question of logic they can't answer.
D
Taking in little knots of people who stand around talking in low voices. At the end of each conversation, they look toward Les Goodman's house.
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.49. CLOSE SHOT – SPOT LIGHT ON PORCH 49.As it suddenly goes out. There's a murmur from the group.50. GROUP SHOT 50.As the people react.GOODMANNow I suppose that's supposed to incriminate me! The light goes on and off. That really does it, doesn't it?(he looks around the faces of the people.)I just don't understand this—(he wets his lips, looking from face to face.)Look, you all know me. We've lived here five years. Right in this house. We're no different than any of the rest of you. We're no different at all. Really . . . this whole thing is just . . . just weird—

A
direct characterization to show that Les Goodman is an alien in disguise.
B
direct characterization to show that Les Goodman is nervous.
C
indirect characterization to show that Les Goodman is an alien in disguise.
D
indirect characterization to show that Les Goodman is nervous.
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Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.STEVE(raising his voice)There's something you can do, Charlie. You could go home and keep your mouth shut. You could quit strutting around like a self-appointed hanging judge and just climb into bed and forget it.CHARLIEYou sound real anxious to have that happen, Steve. I think we better keep our eye on you too!DON(as if he were taking the bit in his teeth, takes a hesitant step to the front)I think everything might as well come out now.(he turns toward Steve.)Your wife's done plenty of talking, Steve, about how odd you are!CHARLIE(picking this up, his eyes widening)Go ahead, tell us what she's said.

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direct characterization to show that the neighbors are turning on one other.
B
direct characterization to show that the neighbors still trust one other.
C
indirect characterization to show that the neighbors are turning on one other.
D
indirect characterization to show that the neighbors still trust one other.
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Which excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street best foreshadows the idea that the residents of Maple Street are becoming a dangerous mob?

A
The crowd picks this up again and with it their suspicions come back with a rush. The murmur becomes a loud chant filling the air with accusations and demands for action. Two of the men pass Don right up the steps. Goodman flattens himself against the screen door.
B
“There's something you can do, Charlie. You could go home and keep your mouth shut. You could quit strutting around like a self-appointed hanging judge and just climb into bed and forget it.”
C
“Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.”
D
"That don't prove a thing. Any guy who'd spend his time lookin' up at the sky early in the morning—well there's something wrong with that kind of a person. There's something that ain't legitimate."

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