There Will Come Soft Rains Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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There Will Come Soft Rains Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 68 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 is unusual about the images of the African animals?
(a) Their colors.
(b) Their sizes.
(c) Their shapes.
(d) Their faces.

2. In the image of animals, the panther is said to be "cavorting." What is this panther doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Playing.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Sleeping.

3. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?
(a) They would still be at work and school.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Playing cards and having a snack.
(d) Having friends over to eat and listen to the radio.

4. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?
(a) The animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(b) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.
(c) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(d) The nursery is the only room that does not turn on its sprinklers.

5. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?
(a) The fire is started by the family dog.
(b) The fire is started when the natural world intrudes into the house.
(c) The fire is started when one of the cleaning mice knocks over a cleaning product.
(d) The fire is started when the house's elaborate machinery begins to break down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the house compared to as it burns to the ground?

2. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?

3. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?

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

5. Who is Baal?

(see the answer key)

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