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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 sizes.
(b) Their shapes.
(c) Their faces.
(d) Their colors.

2. What happens to the dog when it cannot get into the kitchen?
(a) It dies.
(b) It scratches through the door.
(c) It runs through the house breaking things.
(d) It leaves the house.

3. When the story ends, what is left standing?
(a) One wall of the house.
(b) A distant building.
(c) A tree.
(d) Nothing.

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

5. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
(a) The movement of flames destroying the earth.
(b) The color of the rays of the sun coming over the horizon.
(c) The movement of feathers in the sunshine.
(d) The color of a male robin's breast.

Short Answer Questions

1. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?

2. On what date does the story begin?

3. Where are the "aluminium roaches and iron crickets"?

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

5. What happens at ten o'clock?

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