Monsters are Due on Maple Street

The mood at the opening of the play is

• joyful

• peaceful

• exhausted

• suspicious

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.

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.

After the flash of light and sound, what happens to the people on Maple Street?

• Tommy gets shot.

• They go about their day as if nothing happened.

• Their power goes out and phones and cars stop working.

• It starts to rain.

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

The main conflict in this play is

• between Charlie and Tommy

• between the creatures and the people

• among the people themselves

• between Charlie and Steve

Tommy's remarks make everyone feel better

• true

• false

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.

Steve says, “That’s exactly what it is — some kind of madness, “ he means that

• everyone has contracted a disease which causes madness

• the neighbors are crazy to suspect each other

• Les Goodman is crazy to go out

• the monsters have driven people crazy

The suspect keeps changing because

• each suspect proves his innocence

• people’s quirks and actions are seen as evidence

• the police keep finding new evidence

• Tommy keeps changing his story