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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. Which is the best summary of how the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" compares to the short story of the same name?
(a) The poem is more hopeful about humankind's future.
(b) The poem focuses more on the survival of a world without humans.
(c) The poem is a darker version of the same ideas contained in the short story.
(d) The poem focuses more on the role of technology in humankind's demise.

2. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Blossoms.
(c) Snow.
(d) Ash.

3. 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) They would still be at work and school.
(c) Playing cards and having a snack.
(d) Cleaning.

4. When the narrator tells readers that it seems like the voice-clock is worried that no one will get up, this is an example of what technique?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Metaphor.

5. To what famous dog is this dog an allusion?
(a) Cerberus.
(b) President Lincoln's dog.
(c) Buck, from Call of the Wild.
(d) Odysseus's dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?

2. What does the dog do once it gets inside the house?

3. Just before the house collapses, what does it do?

4. When the story ends, what is left standing?

5. Where are the "aluminium roaches and iron crickets"?

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