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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 the first thing that the voice-clock announces?
(a) Time to get up.
(b) Time for breakfast.
(c) Time for work.
(d) It is raining.

2. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?
(a) A person's last words.
(b) A nursery rhyme.
(c) The epilogue of a play.
(d) The poem "There Will Come Soft Rains."

3. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?
(a) Scrapes it into the dog's dish.
(b) Throws it away.
(c) Puts it in the refrigerator.
(d) Leaves it sitting on the table with the rest of the uneaten meals.

4. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?
(a) Mischievous.
(b) Treacherous.
(c) Clever.
(d) Overwhelming.

5. To what famous dog is this dog an allusion?
(a) Cerberus.
(b) Odysseus's dog.
(c) President Lincoln's dog.
(d) Buck, from Call of the Wild.

Short Answer Questions

1. The robot mice are said to live in "warrens." This means that they live in what?

2. What does the house provide after dinner?

3. What happens at ten o'clock?

4. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?

5. What happens to the dog when it cannot get into the kitchen?

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