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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. The line "And swallows circling with their shimmering sound" is an example of which technique?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Personification.

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

3. What is the reaction of nature to the end of human existence in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
(a) Nature is unaware and indifferent.
(b) Nature celebrates the end of humankind.
(c) Nature grieves the loss of humankind.
(d) Nature is puzzled and uncertain.

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

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. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?

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

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 does Bradbury metaphorically compare the house to?

5. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?

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