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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 does the garage do when no one drives the car away?
(a) Announces again that it is time to go to work and to school.
(b) Starts the car remotely.
(c) Waits and then closes again.
(d) Uses the car horn to alert the family.

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

3. Just before the house collapses, what does it do?
(a) It begins performing multiple functions over and over.
(b) It shuts down entirely except for its "voice" function.
(c) It dumps out all of the liquor, coffee, and milk in one last attempt to fight the fire.
(d) It announces the wrong date and time.

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

5. The line "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

4. On what date does the story begin?

5. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?

(see the answer key)

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