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

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.