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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. Who is the author of the poem that the house reads after dinner?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Bradbury.
(c) Teasdale.
(d) Longfellow.

2. What does the house provide after dinner?
(a) Games and snacks.
(b) A warm bath.
(c) Music and hot chocolate.
(d) A fire and a cigar.

3. What is the house compared to as it burns to the ground?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A bonfire.
(c) A skeleton.
(d) A cigar.

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

5. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?
(a) The incinerator.
(b) The stove.
(c) The house.
(d) The dog.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?

3. What happens at ten-fifteen?

4. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?

5. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?

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