Neighbors: Visualizing in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Question 3 • FL-1001040-M/J Language Arts 2 B
Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.As we hear the voices creep up from down below, small, mildly disturbed voices, highlighting these kind of phrases: VOICESElectricity's off.Phone won't work.Can't get a thing on the radio.My power motor won't move, won't work at all.Radio's gone dead!Based on the stage direction and the dialogue, what should the reader picture in this scene?
Answer
A
the main characters conversing about the power outage
B
a single person panicking about the power outage
C
a mob of people causing chaos by panicking about the outage
D
the murmurs of a group of people reacting to the outage
Explanation
The stage direction says the voices “creep up” and are “small, mildly disturbed,” while several different voices mention things that have stopped working. This suggests the reader should picture a group quietly murmuring and reacting to the outage, not one person panicking or a chaotic mob. The best choice is “the murmurs of a group of people reacting to the outage.”
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