The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Comp., vocab, conflict review.

What is the mood at the opening of the play?

• suspicious
• joyful
• exhausted
• peaceful

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

What is the author's purpose in setting the events on Maple Street, U.S.A.?

• The aliens were told to find this street.

• The setting indicates that small towns are filled with superstitious people.

• The main characters live on this street.

• The setting suggests that the events could happen anywhere.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the inciting incident?

• a woman trying to make a phone call

• Pete Van Horn going over to Floral Street.

• a roar of sound and a flash of light

• children buying ice cream

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Why does Pete Van Horn leave Maple Street?

• to catch a space monster

• to see whether Floral Street has power

• to get gas for the cars

• He is afraid of his neighbors.

What is Tommy's explanation for what is happening?

• It was a weather balloon.

• There was no flash.

• Aliens have landed.

• It was thunder because a storm is coming.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Why won't Steve Brand's car start?

• It has run out of gas.
• The battery is dead.
• The engine is broke down.
• Nobody can figure out why.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

Why do the residents start to believe Tommy’s story? 

• They had read similar stories in books. 
• Tommy has always told the truth before. 
• Fear overtakes their good sense. 
• They think it is wise to consider every possibility. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Why do the residents of Maple Street distrust Les Goodman?

• They like fifth columnists. 
• They don’t like people with foreign cars. 
• They fear anyone who is different. 
• They know the Goodman family owns a ham radio.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

All of the following events make the residents nervous and arouse their suspicious except

• The power goes out and nothing is working.

• The ice cream man sells treats to neighborhood children.

• A screeching roar is heard overhead.

• Each neighbor has an idiosyncrasy which makes them different.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

At the end of the play, it turns out that the REAL monsters are

• Tommy's imagination.

• Les's insomnia.

• fear and prejudice.

• Steve's reasonableness.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7