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Monsters are due on Maple Street

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does foreshadowing mean?

a)

A clue about what will happen in the story.

b)

It describes the setting.

c)

It is an action the main character does.

2.

What does flustered mean?

a)

To be laughing

b)

To be happy

c)

To be visibly upset

3.

What does sluggishly mean?

a)

To run as fast as you can.

b)

To be sleeping

c)

To be slow, as if lacking energy

4.

What does it mean to be persistent?

a)

To be a quitter

b)

To never give up.

c)

To be annoying.

5.

What does it mean to be defiant?

a)

Doing everything you are asked to do.

b)

To always saying "yes"

c)

To boldly resist.

6.

What does it mean to be a scapegoat?

a)

To blame someone else for the mistakes of others.

b)

To be a goat that escaped from a pen.

c)

To take the blame for other people.

7.

What does it mean to be sentry?

a)

To be running with grace.

b)

To be happy.

c)

To be standing still.

8.

What does it mean to be transfixed?

a)

To be fixing things.

b)

To become motionless with horror.

c)

to stand still.

9.

What does it mean to converge?

a)

To be playing with friends.

b)

To come together.

c)

To go to church.

10.

What does insomnia mean?

a)

difficulty falling asleep.

b)

To fall asleep in 2 seconds.

c)

To play games before bed.

11.

What is the turning point in a story?

a)

The beginning

b)

The point of the story with the highest amount of tension.

c)

The end

12.

Who leaves to check the next block over?

(a)  

13.

Who shoots Pete?

(a)  

14.

Who was the youngest person to be accused of being an alien?

(a)  

15.

Where does the story take place?

(a)  

16.

Who was watching over the residents at the end of the play?

(a)  

17.

Who turned the residents against each other?

(a)  

18.

Who were the real monsters in the play?

(a)  

19.

What was one conflict in the story?

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20.

What was another conflict in the story?

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21.

What was the theme of the play?

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22.

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men."

What do you think this quote means?

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