The Hitchhiker

What is the setting of the story?

• California and Brooklyn, New York

• 1940 Ford V8

• on the highway, early 1940s

• all of these

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Why does Adams state facts about himself at the beginning of the play?

• to show that he is sane

• to plead for help

• to understand what is happening

• all of these

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Which excerpt best shows that flashback will be used?

• It’s all taken place since the death of her oldest son, Ronald.

• I’m in an auto camp on Route 66 just west of Gallup, New Mexico.

• Six days ago I left Brooklyn to drive to California…

• none of these

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Read the following exerpts. What do they foreshadow?

Promise me you’ll be extra careful. Don’t fall asleep or drive fast or pick up any strangers on the road.

I was in excellent spirits – drive ahead, even the loneliness seemed like a lark. But I

reckoned without him.

• Something might go wrong while he's driving.

• He will encounter a hitchhiker.

• The drive will be harder than he thinks.

• all of these

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Where does Ronald Adams first see the hitchhiker?

• The Pennsylvania Turnpike

• The Brooklyn Bridge

• Near the train tracks

• Behind a barbed wire fence

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Why is the following event important to the development of the plot?

Adams sees the hithiker on the Brooklyn Bridge.

• It is the inciting incident.

• The setting is introduced.

• It is the climax of the story.

• It is the resoulution of the story.

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Which of the following excerpts includes an example of suspense?

• After I got the car back on the road again, I felt like a fool.

• The train was coming closer. I could hear its bell, its cry its whistle crying!

• It was a bright sunshiny afternoon. The peaceful Ohio fields, brown with the autumn

  stubble, lay dreaming in the golden light.

• I’ll be back. I’ll only be on the Coast three months

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Which statement best summarizes the play’s resolution?

• Adams grieves the loss of his mother.

• Adams decides to keep searching for the hitchhiker.

• Adams ponders his own death.

• Adams decides to go back home.

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Which literary device gives hints or clues about what will happen later in the story?

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• allusion

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Which literary device interupts sequence of the plot to tell about an event that happened in the past?

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• allegory

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