1. (a) According to the show’s narrators, what caused “a kind of mass hysteria, that we had never seen before” on October 30, 1938?
(b) What specific actions did people take as a result of their fear? Note specific details.

2. What specific type of news features did Welles and his writers add to the play?

3. The Radiolab broadcast makes the case that world events in the years leading up to 1938 affected both the War of the Worlds broadcast and the way people reacted to it. What are some of those events?