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

(whirls around toward her)

Show them nothing! If they want to look inside our house—let them get a search warrant.

CHARLIE

Look, buddy, you can't afford to—

STEVE

(interrupting)

Charlie, don't tell me what I can afford! And stop telling me who's dangerous and who isn't and who's safe and who's a menace.

According to the stage directions, what is Steve’s attitude in this scene?

He is growing angry about the accusations being made against him.
He is greatly disappointed that Charlie would accuse him of such things.
He is highly amused that Charlie thinks he is involved in what is occurring.
He is secretly pleased by the accusations that are being made about him.

Describe how the festival of spring bring out the latent joy in human nature?

What is the common difference between successive terms in the sequencer 0.36,0 26,0 16,006, 0,04,0

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning