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:

VOICES

Electricity'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?
the main characters conversing about the power outage
a single person panicking about the power outage
a mob of people causing chaos by panicking about the outage
the murmurs of a group of people reacting to the outage

In a study of the relationship between socio-economic class and unethical behavior, 129 university of california undergraduates at berkeley were asked to identify themselves as having low or high social-class by comparing themselves to others with the most (least) money, most (least) education, and most (least) respected jobs. they were also presented with a jar of individually wrapped candies and informed that the candies were for children in a nearby laboratory, but that they could take some if they wanted. after completing some unrelated tasks, participants reported the number of candies they had taken. it was found that those who were identiď¬ed as upper-class took more candy than others. in this study, identify: (a) the cases, (b) the variables and their types, (c) the main research question, (d) identify the population of interest and the sample in this study, and (e) comment on whether or not the results of the study can be generalized to the population, and if the ď¬ndings of the study can be used to establish causal relationships.