Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. 81. EXT. FIELD – NIGHT – ANGLE SHOT LOOKING TOWARD METAL SIDE OF SPACE CRAFT 81.

Which sits shrouded in darkness. An open door throws out a beam of light from the illuminated interior. Two figures silhouetted against the bright lights appear. We get only a vague feeling of form but nothing more explicit than that.

CONTINUED

81. CONTINUED 81.

FIGURE ONE

Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers . . . throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.

Based on the stage directions, who does "Figure One" refer to?

Les Goodman
a policeman
an alien
Tommy

helped him out

Explanation:

81. EXT. FIELD – NIGHT – ANGLE SHOT LOOKING TOWARD METAL SIDE OF SPACE CRAFT 81.

Which sits shrouded in darkness. An open door throws out a beam of light from the illuminated interior. Two figures silhouetted against the bright lights appear. We get only a vague feeling of form but nothing more explicit than that.

CONTINUED

81. CONTINUED 81.

FIGURE ONE

Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers . . . throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.

Based on the stage directions, who does "Figure One" refer to?

Les Goodman

a policeman

an alien

Tommy

the autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

answer a.