1. * prevail : triumph :: picky : __________
2. * store : boycott :: country : __________
3. * patio : plaza :: iguana : _________
4. * ooold : ancient :: shocking : _________
5. * theft : restitution :: assent : _______

1. What do the people of Maple Street think the UFO is at first?
2. Who gets them thinking it might be something else?
3. True/False. Always taking the same route to school is a good example of an idiosyncrasy.
4. So far in the play, who is the scapegoat for all of the fears of the people of Maple Street?
5. Why?

Write out the best answer based on the poem by Emily Dickinson.
6. Emily Dickinson felt that "the Majority" always prevailed on the question of...a) What is the right thing to do. b) Who's weird and who isn't. c) Who's cool and who isn't. d) Who's important and who isn't. e) All of the above.
7. The poem says that if a person looked very carefully...a) He would see that everyone is weird. b) He would see that what might look weird really isn't. c) He would see that what might seem sane really isn't. d) All of the above. e) b and c.
8. The poem says that if you disagree with the majority...a) You're weird. b) You're stupid. c) You're dangerous. d) You're doing the right thing.
9. (Bonus.) Try to connect "Poem #435" to "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." (in a literary way, of course). What message do they both have? (Hint: Look at your answer to #4.)

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"  Act II