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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 happens at ten o'clock?
(a) The sun comes out.
(b) A stray animal wanders through the kitchen.
(c) The robot mice go back to their burrows.
(d) The kitchen begins to make a second breakfast.

2. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?
(a) Snow.
(b) Blossoms.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Ash.

3. What does the dog do once it gets inside the house?
(a) It looks through the house for the family's other dog.
(b) It falls asleep in the nursery.
(c) It begins eating the spoiled food.
(d) It barks at every door.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The line "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn," contains an example of which technique?

2. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?

3. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?

4. Why does the dog want to get into the kitchen so badly?

5. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?

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