Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

In Part I of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” which event signals the beginning of the town’s troubles?

• A woman’s telephone does not work.

• A man’s electric mower will not start.

• A roar is heard, and a flash of light is seen.

• A boy tells about some stories he has read.

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In Part I of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” what motivates Steve to explain the flash of light by talking about meteors and sunspots?

• He knows a lot about science and wants to educate his neighbors.

• He wants to reassure himself and the rest that there is nothing to fear.

• He is from outer space and wants to act like a human being.

• He wants to find the meteor and sell it to a collector.

Which of these events in Part I of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street foreshadows that the neighbors will stop trusting one another?

• Don suggests that an electrical storm has caused the power to go off.

• A woman says that Tommy has been reading too many comic books.

• A man says that they should not be paying attention to Tommy.

• Steve jokes that they should check to see who among them is human.

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Which of these details would not be important in a summary of the action of Part I of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”?

• Pete Van Horn is tall and thin.

• Electric appliances stop working.

• Neighbors wonder who among them is an alien.

• Tommy says that no one should leave town.

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Which of these is the best summary of Part I of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple

Street”?

• The neighbors on Maple Street are unhappy because their power is out.

• Les Goodman frightens his neighbors when his car starts by itself.

• A strange event causes neighbors to become suspicious of one another.

• Pete Van Horn leaves Maple Street to see what is happening elsewhere.

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In Part II of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” what role does Steve play as his neighbors keep watch on the Goodmans’ house?

• He acts as the hanging judge: He tries to convince them that Goodman is dangerous.

• He acts as executioner: He volunteers for a firing squad to execute the guilty parties.

• He acts as peacemaker: He tries to persuade his neighbors to put aside their suspicions.

• He acts as spy: He tries to reach the aliens on his ham radio.

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What emotion motivates Steve in this speech from Part II of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”?

“Go ahead, what’s my wife said? Let’s get it all out. Let’s pick out every idiosyncrasy of every single man, woman, and child on the street. And then we might as well set up some kind of kangaroo court. How about a firing squad at dawn, Charlie, so we can get rid of all the suspects?”

• fear

• disgust

• enjoyment

• love

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Who or what are the monsters in the title “The Monsters Are Due on Maple

Street”?

• the people who live on Maple Street

• the electric appliances on Maple Street

• Les and Ethel Goodman

• The extra-terrestrials

The aliens would describe the residents of Maple Street as

• very brave

• unusually suspicious

• totally evil

• quite predictable

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Explain where the people of Maple Street get the idea that they have been infiltrated by aliens?