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

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

3. What historical event is alluded to with the date given in the beginning of the story?
(a) The bombing of Hiroshima.
(b) The first testing of a nuclear bomb.
(c) The beginning of the Cold War.
(d) The beginning of World War II.

4. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?
(a) Having friends over to eat and listen to the radio.
(b) Playing cards and having a snack.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) They would still be at work and school.

5. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?
(a) It demonstrates a positive attitude toward technology.
(b) It stresses the forgetfulness of the family.
(c) It echos the language of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
(d) It reinforces the similarity of everything that the voice clock says.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?

2. To what story do the robot mice allude?

3. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?

4. What happens at ten-fifteen?

5. What happens at ten o'clock?

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