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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 strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?
(a) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.
(b) The animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(c) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(d) The nursery is the only room that does not turn on its sprinklers.

2. 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?
(a) Tragic and melodramatic.
(b) Haunting and ironic.
(c) Amusing and nostalgic.
(d) Frantic and chaotic.

3. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?
(a) The fire is started when the house's elaborate machinery begins to break down.
(b) The fire is started by the family dog.
(c) The fire is started when one of the cleaning mice knocks over a cleaning product.
(d) The fire is started when the natural world intrudes into the house.

4. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
(a) The color of a male robin's breast.
(b) The movement of flames destroying the earth.
(c) The color of the rays of the sun coming over the horizon.
(d) The movement of feathers in the sunshine.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the house compared to as it burns to the ground?

3. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

4. What happens at ten-fifteen?

5. Who is the author of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

(see the answer key)

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