The Trouble Plot Elements

Which answer correctly describes the SETTING of the story?

• In a white house in the suburbs

• 1958 in a white house in the suburbs of New York City

• The suburbs of New York City with Mom, Dad, Tom, and Nancy

• The names of the people involved had been changed.

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Which answer correctly shows the main CHARACTERS in the story?

• Tom and Nancy

• Tom, Nancy, the police

• Tom, Nancy, and their mom and dad

• The police, the detective, the priest, and the parapsychologist

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Which answer show the EXPOSITION of the story?

• Tom and his sister had come home from school. They were with their mom when they started hearing strange noises.

• Just after Tom and Nancy got home from school, six more bottles popped their caps.

• There were a series of objects moving around the house. Nobody could figure out what was happening. Eventually they stopped.

• They decided that the Lombardos had not made the story up, nor had they imagined it. Their trouble had been real. But what had caused it?

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Which answer correctly describes the main CONFLICT in the story?

• The police and the parapsychologist think Tom might be causing the objects to move.

• The events in this story took place in 1958, in a small white house in the suburb of New York City.

• The police decide it's all fake news.

• Objects are moving around in the family home, and the family is really alarmed by this.

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Which answer is NOT an example of RISING ACTION?

•  ...six more bottles popped their caps.

• a bottle of shampoo moved over the edge of the vanity and crashed to the floor.

• as the police had done, they also ruled out vibrations from underground water and other physical causes. 

  
  

• he wanted to talk to some experts and find out what they thought.

  
  

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Which answer explains the CLIMAX of the story?

• The family waits for the parapsychologists report, and objects move around even more aggressively.

• The parapsychologists are people that study events which Science cannot explain.

• The priest comes over to try to protect the house by blessing it.

• Nobody knows for sure who or what caused the mysterious movements of objects in the house.

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Which answers show FALLING ACTION? Hint: There are TWO CORRECT answers.

• There was a month of chaos after the coffee table flipped over.

• Things returned to normal eventually.

• The cause of the objects moving around was never truly known.

• A porcelain figurine went flying across the room and crashed.

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Which answer shows the RESOLUTION/DENOUEMENT?

• The things that happened were real, but nobody could figure out for certain what actually caused it.

• Police, scientists, and investigators all tried to figure out what was happening.

• The family came back to their house after staying with some relatives for a while.

• Telekinesis means moving something without any physical force.

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What is the main type of CONFLICT happening in the story?

• person versus person

• person versus society

• person versus nature or unknown forces

• person versus self or internal struggle

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Is Nancy a DYNAMIC or STATIC character in the story?

• DYNAMIC

• STATIC

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