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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 job of the robot mice?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Alerting the house to intruders.
(c) Entertaining the dog.
(d) Entertaining the children.

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

3. To what does the phrase "the children's hour" allude?
(a) A poem by Teasdale.
(b) A nursery rhyme.
(c) A fairy tale.
(d) A poem by Longfellow.

4. "The house tried to save itself" is an example of which technique?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Paradox.

5. Who is Baal?
(a) An Egyptian pharaoh.
(b) A pre-Christian god.
(c) A Mesopotamian warrior.
(d) The dog that guards hell in Greek mythology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the image of animals, the panther is said to be "cavorting." What is this panther doing?

2. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?

3. Which is the best descriptor of the mood of the scene in the study, where the poem is read and music plays as a cigar slowly burns down to ash?

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

5. Bradbury mentions that martinis "manifested" on tables. What did the martinis do?

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