Question

This adaptation of this popular novel in 1938 demonstrated the importance and wide-spread availability of radio in the United States. A) Of Mice and Men B) War of the Worlds C) The Grapes of Wrath D) Last of the Mohicans

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) War of the Worlds.

The adaptation of Herbert George Welles' War of the Worlds directed and narrated by Orson Welles had a huge impact when it was aired in the radio. The adaptation imitated a regular radio show with breaking news interrupting the show and narrating an alien invasion. People who were listening to the radio and was not aware that it was a novel adaptation panicked. People all over America thought a real alien invasion was tacking place and flee from their homes, called the police and colapsed the telephone lines.