Neighbors: Visualizing in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Question 3 • FL-1001040-M/J Language Arts 2 B
Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.As we hear the voices creep up from down below, small, mildly disturbed voices, highlighting these kind of phrases: VOICESElectricity's off.Phone won't work.Can't get a thing on the radio.My power motor won't move, won't work at all.Radio's gone dead!Based on the stage direction and the dialogue, what should the reader picture in this scene?
Answer
A
the main characters conversing about the power outage
B
a single person panicking about the power outage
C
a mob of people causing chaos by panicking about the outage
D
the murmurs of a group of people reacting to the outage