"Monsters are Due on Maple Street" - Act II

When Charlie sees all of Maple Street lit by candles, he says, "Why, it's like goin' back into the dark ages or something'." Considering what happens in the play, what second meaning would this statement have?

• The space creatures may take the townspeople to a different time period.
• The residents have let their fear, rather than their reason, take over.
• The creatures causing the power failure are from the Dark Ages.
• People used candles during the Dark Ages.

Why does Charlie shoot Pete Van Horn?

• He thinks Pete caused the power failure.
• He believes Pete is making ham radios.
• He has seen Pete gazing at the night sky.
• He sees a dark figure approaching and thinks it is the monster.

At the end of the play, it turns out that the real monster is -

• Tommy's mind
• the fear and prejudice of human minds
• Charlie's behavior
• Steve's mind

At the end of the play, the residents of Maple Street are --

• resolving their problems
• meeting with the aliens
• turning on one another
• moivng to another town

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
Everyone's eyes were _______ on the sky.

• menace
• transfixed
• intimidated
• assent

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
All were in ____ that something was terribly wrong.

• menace
• intimidated
• assent
• explicit

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
Tommy was not ____ when the adults told him he was being foolish.

• menace
• transfixed
• explicit
• intimidated

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
The aliens had _____ directions for how to handle the humans.

• menace
• transfixed
• assent
• explicit

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
The residents believe there was a real ____ threatening their safety.

• menace
• transfixed
• intimidated
• assent

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
As the mob began _____ on Tommy, his mother shielded him.

• variations
• defiant
• idiosyncrasy
• converging