"Monsters" Review

Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

ASSESSMENT

Multiple Choice

The BEST theme to represent the overall message of the author is...

• Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

• Be aware of your surroundings.

• Fear can turn human beings into monsters.

• Gossip is a negative influence.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following words means to cause or appear guilty?

• antagonism

• incriminate

• revelation

• converging

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a synonym of the word insomnia?

• awake

• joyful

• sleeplessness

• foolish

Multiple Choice

The setting of this story is...

• in the evening in a suburban neighborhood late summer

• in the afternoon in a suburban neighborhood late fall

• in the town at midnight

Multiple Choice

The problem in the play is...

• an alien spaceship has landed

• a power failure has happened

• a neighbor has gone missing

• a storm has knocked out communication

Multiple Choice

The character who causes the neighbors to doubt each other is...

• Steve

• Charlie

• Les

• Tommy

Multiple Choice

Les Goodman is the character in Act 1 who was made into ...

• a leader

• a narrator

• a villain

• a scapegoat

Multiple Choice

The tone of the author shifts from worried to confused in Act 1 to...

• upset and fearful in Act 2

• mysterious and eerie in Act 2

• angry and threatening in Act 2

• violent and bloodthirsty in Act 2

Multiple Choice

In Act 2 the next scapegoat is ________because he has a radio set in his basement that no one has ever seen.

• Les

• Steve

• Charlie

• Mrs. Goodman

Multiple Choice

In Act 2 which character becomes the antagonist towards the other characters?

• Steve

• Les

• Charlie

• Don

Multiple Choice

The neighbors are turning on each other because of the ...

• fear of aliens

• fear of the dark

• fear of the unknown

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

The author uses the literary device of ________ when he mentions the idea of "monsters", the shotgun, and the mysterious "figure" in the dark

• irony

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

"It's the monster! It's the monster!"-who says this??

• Tommy

• Woman

• Steve

• Charlie

PLOT DIAGRAM

• story parts

Multiple Choice

Woman: You killed him, Charlie. You shot him dead!

This event qualifies as the...

• inciting incident

• rising action

• climax

• denouement

Multiple Choice

LES: You were so quick to kill, Charlie, and you were so quick to tell us who we had to be careful of. Well, maybe you had to kill.

What does this quote reveal about Les Goodman?

• He is a hypocrite since the neighbors scapegoated him, now he is doing the same thing.

• He is very frustrated since the neighbors accused him of being an oddball.

• He is the antagonist in the play since he bullies Charlie.

• He is the protagonist since he appears often in the play.

Multiple Choice

DON: Your wife's done plenty of talking, Steve, about how odd you are! This quote reveals...

• how the neighbors are truly scared of the monsters

• how the neighbors are suspicious of people who are "different"

• how the neighbors decided to become a mob

• how the mob became violent

Multiple Choice

The author, Rod Serling, wrote the teleplay to warn against

• the dangers of paranoia

• fearing the unknown

• the dangers of mob mentality

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

STEVE: 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 citizens’ 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. The best meaning of idiosyncrasy is...

• characteristic

• quality

• possibility

• fault

Multiple Choice

STEVE: Show them nothing! If they want to look inside our house - let them get a search warrant. Steve's tone is best described as ...

• serious

• hostile

• upset

• determined

Figure One and Figure Two

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Multiple Choice

We can assume at the end of the play that the aliens...

• came to destroy Maple Street

• came to see the humans destroy each other

• were trying to learn about human inventions

• were attempting to teach humans a lesson

Symbolism

hammer and blood

Multiple Choice

How is the hammer a symbol in the play?

• it represents the death of an innocent victim

• it represents Les Goodman's car that started by itself

• it symbolizes the weapons used in the riot

• it symbolizes the jobs of the community

Multiple Choice

CHARLIE: I know who the monster is here. I know who it is that doesn't belong. I swear to you I know.

This is IRONIC since...

• Charlie saw Tommy dressed as an alien and knows the truth.

• Charlie scapegoats Tommy to shift the blame from himself, yet Charlie is the killer in the play.

• Charlie and Don both use the word odd or "doesn't belong" in the play several times

• Charlie is in contact with the aliens and knows they are targeting Maple Street.

Multiple Choice

Figure One: Their world is full of Maple Streets. And we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves. This example is dramatic irony since...

• the neighbors are fully aware of where the aliens are

• only the aliens know the truth

• only the audience knows the aliens were controlling the situation all along

• both the characters and the audience are not aware of the aliens