The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Act 2

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

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

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

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

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

What emotion motivates Steve in this speech from Act 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?

• A. disgust

• B. amusement

• C. sorrow

• D. love

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

• A. the people who live on Maple Street

• B. the electric appliances on Maple Street

• C. Les and Ethel Goodman

• D. Figures One and Two

In which sentence is the meaning of the word flustered suggested?

• A. That was the way they prepared things for the landing.

• B. He always was an oddball. Him and his whole family.

• C. I don’t understand. I swear . . . I don’t understand.

• D. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find.

Which of these sentences is declarative?

• A. It was an eventful night on Maple Street.

• B. Was it an eventful night on Maple Street?

• C. Observe the eventful night on Maple Street.

• D. What an eventful night it was on Maple Street!