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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. To what story do the robot mice allude?
(a) Little Red Riding Hood.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Beauty and the Beast.
(d) Snow White.

2. What is the image of the west wall meant to allude to?
(a) Similar silhouettes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(b) The Biblical flood.
(c) An asteroid strike.
(d) A recent riot in Los Angeles.

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

4. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?
(a) They mistake the noise of the rain for an intruder.
(b) There is food spilled near the table.
(c) They are looking for the family.
(d) They are programmed to come out at nine-fifteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bradbury metaphorically compare the house to?

2. What does the dog do once it gets inside the house?

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

4. What is the probable purpose of emphasizing the roundness of the smoke plume and the great quantity of smoke?

5. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?

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