How does Woman One’s claim about Les Goodman affect other elements in the story? The neighbors become more sympathetic toward Les Goodman.
The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become less frightened of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become more protective of Les Goodman.

The question is incomplete, here is the complete question:

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

WOMAN ONE  

(a little reluctantly)  

Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.  

(she looks around the circle of faces.)  

That's right looking up at the sky as if . . . as if he were waiting for something.  

(a pause)  

As if he were looking for something.  

There's a murmur of reaction from the crowd again.

How does Woman One's claim about Les Goodman affect other elements in the story?  

The neighbors become more sympathetic toward Les Goodman.

The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.

The neighbors become less frightened of Les Goodman.

The neighbors become more protective of Les Goodman.

The correct answer is B. The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.

Explanation

The fragment is a story about the perception of one of Mr. Les Goodman's neighbors. In this account he expresses that Mr. Les Goodman had a strange demeanor when he said that "I saw Mr. Goodman here in the early hours of the morning standing in front of his house ... looking up at the sky." According to this statement, it can be inferred that his neighbors are suspicious of this behavior by Mr. Les Goodman because it is not a common behavior. According to the above, the correct answer is B. The neighbors are even more suspicious of Les Goodman.

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