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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. The line "And swallows circling with their shimmering sound" is an example of which technique?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Personification.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Alliteration.

2. Why does the dog want to get into the kitchen so badly?
(a) The rest of the house is filling with smoke.
(b) The house has begun making pancakes.
(c) It thinks the family is in the kitchen.
(d) Its food dish is in the kitchen.

3. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?
(a) They are looking for the family.
(b) They mistake the noise of the rain for an intruder.
(c) They are programmed to come out at nine-fifteen.
(d) There is food spilled near the table.

4. At one point, Bradbury says that the house has a "preoccupation" with self-protection. What must be true about the house?
(a) It is bored by the idea of protecting itself.
(b) It does not see a reason to try to protect itself.
(c) It is willing to do terrible things to protect itself.
(d) It is constantly trying to protect itself.

5. To what does the phrase "the children's hour" allude?
(a) A nursery rhyme.
(b) A fairy tale.
(c) A poem by Teasdale.
(d) A poem by Longfellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In which city does the story take place?

3. To what story do the robot mice allude?

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

5. What has happened to the city around the house?

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