Read each of the following statements.  Write A on your paper if you agree with a statement or D if you disagree with a statement.  We will discuss these in class.  We will revisit these statements after we complete the unit to see if you have changed your opinions.  (Get the questionnaire from your classroom teacher).

1.  People basically enjoy being afraid.

2.  Being afraid is therapeutic and cathartic.

3.  Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.

4.  A little fear goes a long way.

5.  The bloodier and gorier a movie is, the more I like it.

6.  People with stage fright are faking it trying to get more attention.

7.  People with vivid imaginations should not read scary books or go to scary movies.

8.  The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

9.  Fear is construed as the flipside of pleasure in many instances.

10.  I believe in haunted houses and in ghosts.

11.  More people are afraid of critters and snakes than of the unknown.

12.  The thought of UFOs frightens me.

13.  Fatal attractions and stalkers are more frightening than snakes and critters.

14.  Being stressed by fears is essential for human survival.

15.  One's imagination turns normal fears into terror or into phobias.

16.  Phobias can incapacitate a person.

17.  "The Blair Witch Project" was not a scary movie.

18.  Always fear your English teacher.

19.  There will never be any new ideas for scary movies, only "revisiting" the old ideas in new ways.

20.  I think horror movies are funny and entertaining.

21.  I think reading a scary book is more frightening than seeing a scary movie.

22.  Nothing frightens me.

23.  Scary movies cause nightmares.

24.  Stephen King is my favorite author.

25.  I loved to read R. L. Stine when I was small.
 
 

 

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