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

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

3. Who does the story imply is still alive in the city?
(a) Some animals.
(b) No one.
(c) A few scientists.
(d) The wealthy.

4. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?
(a) It echos the language of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
(b) It demonstrates a positive attitude toward technology.
(c) It stresses the forgetfulness of the family.
(d) It reinforces the similarity of everything that the voice clock says.

5. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Epithet.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Kenning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the house provide after dinner?

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

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

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

5. What can be seen on the house's west wall?

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