Invasion from Mars

What problem is stated in the introduction on page 176 before the play begins?

• a strange metal cylinder has crash-landed on a farm

• aliens have landed and destroyed Mr. Phillips' farm

• mass hysteria has taken over

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What is the setting?

• the Mercury Theatre

• 1938

• 1938, on a New Jersey farm

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CCSS.RL.4.3

Identify the 4 main characters

• Pierson, Voices, Announcer, Wilmuth

• Pierson, Phillips, Wilmuth, Policeman

• Wilmuth, Pierson, Phillips, Announcer

Who is Pierson?

• The owner of the farm where the cylindrical object crashed

• a professor

• the person broadcasting the radio show.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Identify two details that Phiilips used to describe the creatures as they emerged from the cylinder.

• v-shaped mouth

• green, with multiple tentacles

• large as a bear, and glistens like wet leather

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

How does Phillips describe the sound come from inside the cylinder?

• loud, scratching

• hissing, like the fourth of july

• loud, knocking from withi

• a curious humming sound

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CCSS.RL.4.1

Who owns the farm where the cylindrical object has crashed?

• Phillips

• Pierson

• Wilmuth

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CCSS.RL.4.1

Who is Phillips?

• a police officer

• a reporter

• the owner of the farm

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Identify three things catch fire at the end of the play

• the woods, the barns, and the gas tanks of automobiles

• the woods, the barns, the neighbors houses

• the woods, gas tanks from automobiles

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What genre is Invasion from Mars?

• nonfiction

• myth

• drama

• biography

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CCSS.RL.4.5