The Pedestrian

How does Mr. Mead's profession act as a threat to society in "The Pedestrian"?

• Writing no longer exists as a profession and is therefore irrelevant
• Writing involves creativity and individuality, traits clearly not welcomed in this society
• Mr. Mead can potentially reveal the secrets of the society in which he lives

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.1

3. Why does the author refer to the people in their homes as “gray phantoms?”

• A. he’s implying that they are full of life

• B. he’s implying that they are lifeless

• C. he’s implying that they are curious

• D. he’s implying that they are scared

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

7. Identify the figurative language in this sentence: “It was not unequal to walking through a graveyard.”

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following quotations reveals the theme of "The pedestrian"?

• "There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside....."

• "... he could imagine himself upon the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles,..."

• "The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them."

• "Was that a murmur of laughter from within a moon-white house?"

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Manifest

• Bare boned

• Antiseptic

• Appearing from time to time

• Appear or become evident

Intermittent

• Appearing from time to time

• Become evident

• Manifest

• Metallic

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Regressive

• Manifest

• Metallic

• used to prevent infection

• Lessening or weakening

not occurring often

• infrequent

• surveillance

• undremine

• fickle

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the setting of "The Pedestrian"?

• 2053 AD
• A chilly November evening
• In the middle of a densely populated city
• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Why were the police suspicious of Mr. Leonard Mead?

• He was wearing sneakers
• He's not married
• He was outside at night
• He tried to run from the police car

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3