The Hitchhiker

What does "mad" mean in the following line: "I know that I'm at this moment perfectly sane, that is't not me who's gone mad."

• angry and upset

• insane/crazy

• confused

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does the word FORESHADOW mean?

• the place where to roads meet at an intersection

• a narrative device that hints at coming events

• a carefree adventure

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which event foreshadows the appearance of the hitchhiker? 

• A man at the gas station fills up Adam's car
• Mother tells Adams to not to pick up strangers
• An operator asks Adams to deposit money
• Adams tells Mother that he will be careful

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the setting of the story?

• California and NY

• Ronald's car

• The highway

• All answers are correct

What is an unreliable narrator?

• Someone the reader can trust

• A narrator that uses big words while telling a story

• A narrator that can not be trusted to tell accurate events

• when the narrator and the author are the same person

What does Mrs. Adams warn the main character about before the trip?

• falling asleep

• driving fast

• picking up strangers

• all of the above

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

The main character is driving from Brooklyn to...

• California

• Colorado

• Oklahoma

• Pennsylvania

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

When the main character called his mother, who answered the phone?7

• his great aunt

• a strange man

• a woman he did not know

• none of these

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What was strange about the hitchhiker

• He was covered in blood

• He was screaming in Latin

• He kept impossibly showing up

• He was a dream

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

At the end of the radio play, Adams realizes that six days earlier he

• lost his mother to a fatal disease.
• killed the hitchhiker on the train tracks.
• died in an automobile accident in Brooklyn.
• went insane and abandoned his responsibilities.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10