Thursday, 12/20/01
Finish "Monsters..."
Watch "Monsters..."
Last Quiz of the year (10).
  1. (2) What is ironic about Charlie's statement about going back to the "dark ages"?  (What he meant vs. another meaning we could get from his statement.)
  2. The script originally said to only "hint at the form" of the aliens. Why might the director of the TV version have decided to show us the aliens rather than merely hinting at their form, like the script says to do? (Hint: What did he decide to make them look like?)
  3. What do you think Rod Serling's point is? a) To show that we should be scared of aliens. b) To show that we shouldn't be so suspicious of our neighbors. c) To show that we often judge people by insignificant things. d) That fear of the unknown makes us dumb. e) That scared people in a group are even dumber. f) a and c, g) c, d, and e, h) a and b. h) All of the above.
  4. Who/what were really the monsters?
  5. The main conflict(s) in this play: a) man vs. society, b) man vs. man, c) man vs. himself (internal), d) man vs nature, e) all of the above, f) a, b, and c.
  6. (2) Explain the narrator's last speech, especially the first line. ("The tools of conquest..." p260)
  7. Give an example of an idiosyncrasy.
  8. Show someone being used as a scapegoat.

121 words possible.