"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Following the narrator's introduction, what event begins the play?

• the ringing of church bells

• a roar of sound and a flash of light

• the sound of car brakes screeching

• children arguing with an ice cream man

When the townspeople turn on their radios,

• they learn that aliens have attacked

• they learn that a meteor has landed nearby

• they hear nothing

• they hear strange, hypnotic music

Why won't Steve Brand's car start?

• It has run out of gas.

• The engine has broken down.

• The battery is dead.

• Nobody can figure out why.

who is the first person to suggest that aliens have arrived?

• Steve Brand

• the narrator

• Mrs. Goodman

• none of these

When Les Goodman's car starts by itself, the others demand

• that he give them a ride

• to listen to his car radio

• that he give them an explanation

• that he drive to the police station and bring back an officer

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Why does Pete Van Horn leave Maple Street?

• to catch a space monster

• to see whether a power line has broken

• to see whether Floral Street has power

• He is afraid of his neighbors

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Les Goodman tells the others that he is guilty of

• insomnia

• tricking his neighbors

• summoning space aliens

• none of these

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Suspicion falls upon Steve Brand because he has built...

• a spaceship

• a radio

• an enormous shed in his backyard

• a bookshelf from a strange metallic substance

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What does Charlie do when a figure approaches from the darkness?

• fires Don Martin's shotgun

• locks himself in his house

• holds up his own shotgun

• runs toward the figure

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Who dies in Act II

• Don Martin

• the space monster

• Pete Van Horn

• nobody

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