The Monsters are Due on Maple Street-Act I

The mood at the opening of the play is

• joyful

• peaceful

• exhausted

• suspicious

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

How is the audience first made aware that things are NOT functioning normally on Maple Street?

• Les Goodman complains that his car won’t start.

• There is an explosion on the power lines.

• People are shown having power problems.

• Tommy warns the people that their power is about to go off.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Why do Steve and Charlie decide not to leave the neighborhood?

• They want to stay and protect their families.

• Tommy tells them about a book he has read.

• They want to wait and see if the power will come back by itself.

• The neighbors ask them not to leave.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Tommy tells a scary story about

• people getting lost in a time warp

• a world with no people

• mutant insects taking over the earth

• aliens who look like humans

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When Steve says, “Wait a minute….Let’s not be a mob!” he is characterized as

• impulsive

• preachy

• reasonable

• weak

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This play has a narrator

• true

• false

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

People suspect Les Goodman for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• His car starts by itself.

• He didn’t come out to look at “meteor."

• He has been seen out at the night, looking up at the sky.

• He speaks a foreign language.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The mood at the end of Act 1 is

• joyful

• suspicious

• peaceful

• exhausted

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

The setting of Act I is

• a town in a dream

• a town on another planet

• a specific town in the United States

• any ordinary town in the U.S.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

Pete Van Horn volunteers to

• walk to the nearby street to see if the power is off there too

• . walk to the police station

• see if his ham radio works

• fix Les Goodman’s car

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4