Invasion From Mars Comprehension

Where do the events of this play take place?

• in outer space
• in a radio station
• on a farm in New Jersey
• inside a metal cylinder

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

How does Carl Phillips show his impatience with Mr. Wilmuth?

• He asks Mr. Wilmuth to sit down.
• He cuts off Mr. Wilmuth's story?
• He refuses to speak to Mr. Wilmuth.
• He asks Mr. Wilmuth to write an article.

What happens immediately after the top of the metal cylinder falls to the ground?

• The entire field catches on fire.
• Carl Phillips interviews the owner of the farm.
• The police captain confers with a professor.
• A creature comes out of the cylinder.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

Why do the captain and the policeman hold a white handkerchief tied to a pole as they approach the metal object?

• They want to show that they will do no harm.
• They want to clean the object.
• They want to use the pole as a weapon.
• They believe that aliens use handkerchiefs.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

What element of drama gives us the most information about the characters?

• Stage directions

• dialogue

• the narrator

What is the setting of the play?

• Outer space

• inside the metal cylinder

• a farm in New Jersy

• a radio station

What does the word windy mean?

• having a lot of wind

• likely to have wind

• having NO wind

• storming

 Invasion from Mars was a play that was performed on...

• TV
• Stage
• Radio
• A book

How does the reader learn the MOST about the characters in the play?

• through what the characters say
• through how the characters act
• through the way the characters move
• through the descriptions of an omniscient narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Read these stage directions from the end of the scene.
(Crash of microphone....then dead silence)
How does the scene MOST likely end?

• The creature from the cylinder captures the spectators with its tentacles.
• Mr. Wilmuth captures the strange creature from the cylinder.
• Phillips drops his microphone and runs away from the field.
• Another cylinder drops from the sky into the field.