"MoMS Quiz, 11/14/14."  Name:                                                        Date:                               Period:
Warm Up 11/13: ___/20

Write or circle the ANSWER. Use your notebook, your book, and/or your group.
  1. (Review) The resolution of The Outsiders is when...


  2. What did President Roosevelt mean when he said, "All we have to fear is fear itself"?


  3. Always eating chicken before a baseball game is a good example of an idiosyncrasy.  a) True  b) False
  4. In the word insomnia, the prefix in- means able to.  a) True  b) False
  5. subside : ebb :: engross : _____    a) idiosyncrasy b) persistent  c) metamorphosis  d) transfix  e) scapegoat  f) insomnia
  6. lazy : F's :: _____ : A's    a) idiosyncrasy b) persistent  c) metamorphosis  d) transfix  e) scapegoat  f) insomnia
  7. What do the people of Maple Street think the UFO is at first?  _____________________
  8. (p247) "It's a tree-lined, quiet residential American street..."  a) exposition  b) inciting action  c) resolution  d) rising action  e) theme  f) climax  g) simile  h) conflict
  9. What would be the inciting incident of our story?

  10. What would be our main conflict?

  11. This story was told in ______ person.  a) 1st  b) 2nd  c) 3rd  d) 4th
  12. Charlie: "Why, it's like going back to the dark ages or something."  a) climax  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) theme  g) resolution
  13. The climax of the story is when...

  14. (Circle ALL answers that apply!) "There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices..."  a) climax  b) theme  c) conflict  d) irony  e) point of view  f) metaphor   g) resolution
  15. Who were the "monsters"?  Why do you say so?

  16. (BONUS) The script called originally said that the aliens should not be shown, that their form should be merely "hinted at." Why might the director of the tv version have decided to show us what they look like? (Hint: What did they look like?)