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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 unusual about the images of the African animals?
(a) Their colors.
(b) Their shapes.
(c) Their faces.
(d) Their sizes.

2. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The nursery.
(d) The living room.

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

4. Which is the best descriptor of the mood of the scene in the study, where the poem is read and music plays as a cigar slowly burns down to ash?
(a) Tragic and melodramatic.
(b) Frantic and chaotic.
(c) Haunting and ironic.
(d) Amusing and nostalgic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that the voice-clock announces?

2. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?

3. What allusion is present in the weather box's announcement of the rain?

4. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

5. "Seven-nine, breakfast time" is an example of which rhyming technique?

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