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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 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.

2. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?
(a) The incinerator.
(b) The yard.
(c) The city.
(d) The house.

3. What does the garage do when no one drives the car away?
(a) Waits and then closes again.
(b) Announces again that it is time to go to work and to school.
(c) Uses the car horn to alert the family.
(d) Starts the car remotely.

4. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?
(a) "Fire and Ice."
(b) "There Will Come Soft Rains."
(c) "The Children's Hour."
(d) "August 6."

5. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?
(a) That the dog is probably contagious.
(b) That the family is not with it.
(c) The disturbance to its routine.
(d) Needing to clean up the mud from its feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?

2. What is the reaction of nature to the end of human existence in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

3. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?

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

5. What is the first thing that the voice-clock announces?

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