Let 'em Play God

Which choice is most likely the author's purpose of "Let 'em Play God?"

• To persuade

• To inform

• To entertain

• To confuse

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CCSS.RI.8.6

What is Alfred Hitchcock's point of view in "Let 'em Play God?"

• To teach readers about what suspense is and how to attain it

• To make readers surprised

• To strike horror into his readers

• To help the reader create a good movie

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CCSS.RI.8.6

What is Alfred Hitchcock's nickname?

• The master of surprise

• The master of suspense

• The master of horror

• The master of movies

In order to create suspense, what does Hitchcock say the audience must know?

• Nothing, they need to be surprised

• The more gore the more suspense

• The audience must imagine a monster

• The audience must know all of the answers, but not when they are going to happen

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CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Define suspense

• Being completely surprised

• Being completely confused

• Knowing what will happen just not when

• Being completely annoyed

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CCSS.RL.8.4

What movie is Alfred Hitchcock most famous for

• North by Northwest

• Rope

• Psycho

• The Birds

What does it mean to "Play God?"

• To have power or control over something or someone

• To float in the sky

• To create a religion

• To have people argue

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Suppose, for instance, you have six characters involved in a mystery. A man has been murdered and all six are possible suspects but no one is sure including the audience.

What are suspects as it is used in "Let 'em Play God?"

• Confused people

• Analyzing

• An investigator

• People that are possibly guilty

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.4

One of the characters, a young man, is standing in a shadowy room with his back to the door when an unidentified character in a cloak and black hat sneaks in and slugs him into insensibility.

What does insensibility mean as it is used in this sentence?

• Not caring about others

• Not being able to feel any senses

• Using your senses

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.4

For 17 years I have been making pictures described alternately as thriller, dark mysteries, and chillers, yet I have never actually directed a whodunit or a puzzler. Offhand this may sound like debunking, but I do not believe that puzzling the audience is the essence of suspense.

What does debunking mean as it is used in the passage?

• Proving something to not be true

• Something about a bunk bed

• Making something possible

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4