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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "There Will Come Soft Rains".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the dog when it cannot get into the kitchen?
(a) It scratches through the door.
(b) It dies.
(c) It runs through the house breaking things.
(d) It leaves the house.

2. What is the name of the family that owned the house?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Fitzpatrick.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) McClellan.

3. Which is the best descriptor of the mood of the scene in the study, where the poem is read and music plays as a cigar slowly burns down to ash?
(a) Frantic and chaotic.
(b) Tragic and melodramatic.
(c) Amusing and nostalgic.
(d) Haunting and ironic.

4. Who is Baal?
(a) The dog that guards hell in Greek mythology.
(b) A pre-Christian god.
(c) A Mesopotamian warrior.
(d) An Egyptian pharaoh.

5. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?
(a) Eggs and hash browns.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Eggs, toast, and bacon.
(d) Pancakes and bacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?

2. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?

3. To what famous dog is this dog an allusion?

4. At one point, Bradbury says that the house has a "preoccupation" with self-protection. What must be true about the house?

5. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?

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