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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two men believe will happen to the hundred thousand people who are due to arrive on Mars in the next few weeks?
(a) They will find another planet on which to hide
(b) They will not come
(c) They will all be killed
(d) They will arrive early

2. What does Father Peregrine purchase on his way out of the shop?
(a) Luggage rack
(b) Nothing
(c) Valise
(d) Ticket to Earth

3. What did Teece participate in many times at night?
(a) Store sales
(b) Lynchings
(c) Rocket building
(d) Helping blacks become freee

4. Which of the following does Stendahl not blame for for the small laws which he feels prevent him from doing what he would like to do?
(a) Martians
(b) Political biases
(c) Religion
(d) Unions

5. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?
(a) Their dead son, Tom
(b) A Martian couple
(c) A government official
(d) Edgar Allen Poe

Short Answer Questions

1. What destroyed many of the buildings and people in Allendale, California?

2. What do the parents of the boys do when the boys return home?

3. What news just reached Mars about Earth in this chapter?

4. What sport are the children engaging in during January of 1999?

5. Where does Wilder ask to have Spendor shot?

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