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"The Pedestrian" is told from the
first-person point of view
second-person point of view
third-person limited
third-person omniscient
Why is it ironic that Leonard Mead is the only one walking in the city?
Everyone in the city is dead
Leonard is arrested by the police
It is a city of three million people
Leonard kives in the city alone
The tone of this story can be described as
humorous and sly
romantic and optimistic
cynical and chilling
matter-of-fact
The occasional use of the second-person point of view adds to the power of the story by
increasing the sense of Leonard Mead's personal danger
characterizing the narrator
drawing readers into the story
providing a different point of view
Leonard Mead chooses to walk instead of watching television because he
dislikes television quiz shows
owns only a black-and-white television set
is secretly plotting against society
wants to experience life firsthand
Why is there no one in the Police Car?
Mead only imagines the car.
The lights are too bright.
the police are hidden.
The Car is automatically controlled.
Leonard Mead is taken to the psychiatric center because
the police assume he is crazy for walking
the police take everyone there
he is no longer married
the police think he is drunk
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?"
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
7. Identify the figurative language in this sentence: “It was not unequal to walking through a graveyard.”
alliteration
personification
simile
metaphor
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