The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

To incriminate means:

• To commit a crime
• To make someone seem guilty
• To tell someone about a crime
• To blame someone 

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The inability to sleep is known as:

• hyperactivity
• being active
• being worried
• insomnia

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An uncommon way that a person acts or thinks is known as:

• idiosyncrasy
• weirdness
• crazy
• different

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When something or someone is contorted, it means that:

• It is hidden
• It is mysterious
• It is difficult to understand
• It is twisted into a strange shape

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The conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie is known as .......

• Script
• Point of View
• Dialogue
• Narration

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The Maple Street neighbors are suspicious of Les Goodman because....

• He has a car that starts by itself and he stands out in his porch looking at the sky as if he was looking for something
• He spends hours down in his basement working in some kind of radio
• He has a shotgun
• He is the only one who has seen the figure of the monster

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Why does Tommy shouts, “It’s the monster! It’s the monster!” ?

• Because he saw a monster slowly walking toward them
• He wanted Charlie to kill Pete Van Horn
• Because fear was taking over his mind and every little movement or action seemed suspicious or threatening
• He was the monster and wanted to distract the neighbors from Maple Street

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At the end of the story, What event distracted the neighbors from the fact that Charlie had killed Pete Van Horn?

• The shotgun disappeared
• More monsters started to arrived 
• The lights at Charlie's house went on and he was the only one with lights in the whole block 
• Everybody saw a light in the sky

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What does Charlie say to try to excuse or justify his act of terrible violence at the end of the story?

• He didn't like Pete Van Horn anyway

• He knew that Pete Van Horn's family was from outer space

• He didn't know the shotgun was loaded

• He says he didn't know who the figure was and that he would never have hurt anyone he knew, that he was only trying to protect his home.

How does the neighbors' reaction to the mysterious shadow affect their relationships with one another?

• They begin to distrust each other and everybody seems to be suspicious
• They are afraid of everybody in the neighborhood
• Everyone looks like the monster
• Everyone knows that Goodman is acting weird

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