Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

What is the setting of The Monsters are Due on Maple Street?

• New York
• Floral Street
• Maple Street
• Chicago

After the flash of light and loud sound, what happens to the people on Maple Street?

• They go about their day like nothing happened.
• Tommy gets shot.
• Their power goes out and phones, cars and lights stop working.
• It starts to rain.

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What is the mood at the opening of the play?

• suspicious
• joyful
• exhausted
• peaceful

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What is Tommy's explanation for what is happening?

• It was a weather balloon.
• There was no flash.
• Aliens have landed.
• it was thunder because a storm is coming
  It was thunder because a storm is coming.

What first causes neighbors to suspect Les Goodman is from outer space?

• He is single.
• He is tall.
• His car starts on its own.
• He just moved into the neighborhood.

Who does Charlie use as a scapegoat after shooting Pete Van Horn?

• Sally
• Tommy
• Steve Brand
• Les Goodman

Whom or what does Charlie shoot with the shotgun and why does he shoot him?

• Tommy for telling lies
• The women for being hysetrical
• Steve Brand for not supporting him
• Pete Van Horn because he thinks he is an alien

Who is really behind the power going out?

• the electric company
• Les Goodman
• Steven Brand
• aliens

The theme of the play can best be expressed as

• we as humans are our worst enemy
• aliens may live among us
• whewhen faced with strange events, people in a small town bring their own destructionn faced with strange events, people in a small town bring their own destruction
• there are no such things as monsters
  there are no such things as monsters

The main conflict in the play is

• between Charlie and Tommy
• the people themselves
• between the aliens and people
• between Charlie and Steve

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