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- 1. Multiple Choice
What might the author, Ray Bradbury, be commenting on?
Society's lack of interest in personal interaction
Society's complete dependence on technology and the resulting dangers
Society's laziness
- 2. Multiple ChoiceHow does Mr. Mead's profession act as a threat to society in "The Pedestrian"?Writing no longer exists as a profession and is therefore irrelevantWriting involves creativity and individuality, traits clearly not welcomed in this societyMr. Mead can potentially reveal the secrets of the society in which he lives
- 3. Multiple Choice
3. Why does the author refer to the people in their homes as “gray phantoms?”
A. he’s implying that they are full of life
B. he’s implying that they are lifeless
C. he’s implying that they are curious
D. he’s implying that they are scared
- 4. Multiple Choice
7. Identify the figurative language in this sentence: “It was not unequal to walking through a graveyard.”
alliteration
personification
simile
metaphor
- 5. Multiple Choice
"The Pedestrian" is told from the
first-person point of view
second-person point of view
third-person limited
third-person omniscient
- 6. Multiple Choice
The tone of this story can be described as
humorous and sly
romantic and optimistic
cynical and chilling
matter-of-fact
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following quotations reveals the theme of "The pedestrian"?
"There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside....."
"... he could imagine himself upon the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles,..."
"The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them."
"Was that a murmur of laughter from within a moon-white house?"
- 8. Multiple Choice
Leanard Mead could BEST be described as:
Non-Conformist
Dependant
Closed-Minded
Intimidating
- 9. Multiple Choice
Ray Bradbury uses all of the following techniques to convey his message in his short story "The Pedestrian" EXCEPT:
Imagery
Characters & Dialogue
Facts & Statistics
Figurative Language
- 10. Multiple Choice
In "The Pedestrian," "faintest glimmers of firefly light" is an example of:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
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