Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

VOICES

How could he know?

Who told him?

Make the kid answer.

Etc.

CONTINUED

70. CONTINUED 70.

The crowd starts to converge around the mother who grabs the child and starts to run with him. The crowd starts to follow, at first walking fast, and then running after him.

Based on the stage directions, what is occurring in this scene?

Alittle later than his thisbe had, and he could see what surely were the tracks of a wild beast left clearly on deep dust. his face grew ashen. and when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's i who bear the guilt for this. which statement best describes how the order of events creates tension?