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

MRS. GOODMAN

That's exactly what he does. Why this whole thing it's . . . it's some kind of madness or something.

STEVE

(nods grimly)

That's exactly what it is—some kind of madness.

CHARLIE'S VOICE

(shrill, from across the street)

You best watch who you're seen with, Steve! Until we get this all straightened out, you ain't exactly above suspicion yourself.

STEVE

(whirling around toward him)

Or you, Charlie. Or any of us, it seems. From age eight on up!

WOMAN ONE

What I'd like to know is—what are we gonna do? Just stand around here all night?

CHARLIE

There's nothin' else we can do!

(he turns back, looking toward Steve and Goodman again.) One of 'em'll tip their hand. They got to.

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STEVE

(raising his voice)

There's something you can do, Charlie. You could go home and keep your mouth shut. You could quit strutting around like a self-appointed hanging judge and just climb into bed and forget it.

What do Steve’s reactions to Mrs. Goodman and Charlie show the reader about Steve?

Steve is frightened of the alien invasion.
Steve is an alien in disguise.
Steve does not like many of his neighbors.
Steve is sensible and unafraid.

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Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

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