"The Pedestrian" Review

What is the setting of "The Pedestrian"?

• 2053 AD
• A chilly November evening
• In the middle of a densely populated city
• All of the above

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How does Mr. Mead's profession act as a threat to society in "The Pedestrian"?

• Writing no longer exists as a profession and is therefore irrelevant
• Writing involves creativity and individuality, traits clearly not welcomed in this society
• Mr. Mead can potentially reveal the secrets of the society in which he lives

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What do phrases such as "grassy seams," "buckling concrete walk," and "lumpy walk" imply?

• The entire city is old and falling apart
• No one uses the sidewalks much and they are therefore untended
• There was a recent earthquake that damaged much of the walkways

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Why were the police suspicious of Mr. Leonard Mead?

• He was wearing sneakers
• He's not married
• He was outside at night
• He tried to run from the police car

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How many police men were in the police car?

• None
• One
• Two
• It's not mentioned

The citizens in "The Pedestrian" are __________________ by the television.

• Captivated
• Excited
• Make unintelligent
• Controlled

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Why is it ironic that Leonard Mead is the only one walking in the city?

• Everyone in the city is dead

• Leonard is arrested by the police

• It is a city of three million people

• Leonard kives in the city alone

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Leonard Mead chooses to walk instead of watching television because he

• dislikes television quiz shows

• owns only a black-and-white television set

• is secretly plotting against society

• wants to experience life firsthand

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Why is there no one in the Police Car?

• Mead only imagines the car.

• The lights are too bright.

• the police are hidden.

• The Car is automatically controlled.

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Which of the following quotations reveals the theme of "The pedestrian"?

• "There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside....."

• "... he could imagine himself upon the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles,..."

• "The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them."

• "Was that a murmur of laughter from within a moon-white house?"

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