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

2. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?
(a) The fire reaches the house's "brain" in the attic.
(b) The house stops defending itself.
(c) The rain stops.
(d) The wind creates flames so intense the house cannot fight them.

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

4. What can be seen on the house's west wall?
(a) Water beginning to seep in at the foundation.
(b) Broken glass.
(c) The silhouettes of the family.
(d) A huge crater.

5. "Seven-nine, breakfast time" is an example of which rhyming technique?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) End rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?

2. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?

3. What is the image of the west wall meant to allude to?

4. What does the dog do once it gets inside the house?

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

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