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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Inference Notes
During your reading of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” you will be asked to respond to
inference prompts from the text. Record your thoughts in the appropriate spaces below. Hold on to
these notes; you will need them for the assessment next week!
Prompt #1: What do the stage directions lead you to think about the roaring sound and flashing light?
(page 62)
Prompt #2: Does Steve believe his own words? What can you infer from the stage directions (bottom
of left-hand column)? (page 64)
Prompt #3: What inference have the neighbors made about Les Goodman? (page 66)
Prompt #4: Is Steve serious here (top of left-hand column)? On what do you base your inference?
(page 67)
Prompt #5: What fact about Goodman has the woman observed (halfway down right-hand column)?
What inference has she made? Is this reasonable?
Turn over 
Prompt #6: What is Charlie suggesting about the fact that Steve is talking to Les Goodman? What can
you suppose about the characters from this? (page 71)
Prompt #7: What are the residents implying about Charlie (top of left-hand column)? What evidence
is this based on? (page 74)
Prompt #8: What inference have the residents made about Tommy (top of left-hand column)? (page
75 )
Prompt #9: What can you infer about “Figure One” and “Figure Two” and their view of the human
race? (page 76)