Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

52. CLOSE SHOT – GOODMAN 52.

As he instinctively backs away.

GOODMAN

She's crazy. Look I can explain that. Please . . . I can really explain that . . . she's making it up anyway.

(then he shouts,)

I tell you she's making it up!

Now he takes a step toward the crowd and they back away from him. He walks down the steps after them and they continue to back away. Now he's suddenly and completely left alone and he looks like a man caught in the middle of a menacing circle as we take a

SLOW FADE TO BLACK:

Based on the clues in this excerpt, what will most likely happen next?

The neighbors will become suspicious of Woman One.
The neighbors will apologize to Goodman and leave.
The neighbors will get their electricity back.
The neighbors will remain suspicious of Goodman.

Fortify is a verb that means “to protect and strengthen.” a fortifications is a that means something that protects.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Titinius.] why didst thou send me forth, brave cassius? did i not meet thy friends, and did not they put on my brows this wreath of victory, and bid me give it thee? didst thou not hear their shouts? alas, thou hast misconstrued everything! but hold thee, take this garland on thy brow. thy brutus bid me give it thee, and i will do his bidding. brutus, come apace, and see how i regarded caius cassius. by your leave, gods,—this is a roman’s part: come, cassius’ sword, and find titinius’ heart. which theme is best expressed by the text evidence in the excerpt? a. power corrupts those who achieve it. b victory has a high cost for both sides of a conflict. c. loyalty to one's superior is more important than life. d.people in power cannot recognize success.