The Hitchhiker Review

What is the setting of the story?

• California and New York

• 1940 Ford V8 car

• on the highway, early 1940

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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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CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

Which excerpt best shows that the story is told as a flashback?

• 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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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is being foreshadowed in the excerpt below?:

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

• an accident

• the appearance of the hitchhiker

• the death of a character

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Where does Adams see the hitchhiker?

• the Brooklyn Bridge

• standing beside a barbed-wire fence

• outside the Navajo reservation

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

Adams sees the hitchhiker on the Brooklyn Bridge.

• The hitchhiker is introduced

• The setting is established

• It is the climax of the story

• It puts the reader in suspense

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following excerpts includes an example of suspense?

• No, people drive through here in all kinds of weather. Mostly business, though. Ain't many pleasure cars on the turnpike this season of the year.

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

• Listen, just a minute ago there was a man standing here, right beside this stand, and he - a suspicious looking man.

• It was a bright sunshiny afternoon. The peaceful Ohio fields, brown with the autumn stubble, lay dreaming in the golden light.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which statement best summarizes the play's resolution?

• Adams has become a ghost.

• Adams grieves the loss of his mother.

• Adams decides to find the hitchhiker.

• Adams ponders his own death.

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CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

What element(s) added suspense to the radio version?

• music

• sounds

• dialogue

• all of these

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

What is the climax of the story?

• Adams sees the hitchhiker on the Brooklyn Bride.

• Adams finds out he died in a car crash.

• Adams finds out his mom had a nervous breakdown and is in the hospital.

• Adams picks up a female hitchhiker.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4