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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. When the windows break and the wind makes the fire grow and spread, which thematic motif is reinforced?
(a) The house is a part of nature.
(b) Technology can be dangerous.
(c) Nature and the house are in opposition.
(d) The house is evil.

2. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?
(a) The house.
(b) The stove.
(c) The dog.
(d) The incinerator.

3. What is the job of the robot mice?
(a) Entertaining the dog.
(b) Entertaining the children.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Alerting the house to intruders.

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

5. Bradbury mentions that martinis "manifested" on tables. What did the martinis do?
(a) Appeared.
(b) Evaporated.
(c) Sparkled.
(d) Spilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at ten-fifteen?

2. What does the house provide after dinner?

3. "The house tried to save itself" is an example of which technique?

4. The line "And swallows circling with their shimmering sound" is an example of which technique?

5. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?

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