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

2. 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) Foreshadowing.
(b) Flashback.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Imagery.

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

4. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?
(a) Puts it in the refrigerator.
(b) Throws it away.
(c) Leaves it sitting on the table with the rest of the uneaten meals.
(d) Scrapes it into the dog's dish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "The house tried to save itself" is an example of which technique?

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

3. What happens at ten-fifteen?

4. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?

5. What causes the house to temporarily "give up" as the fire spreads?

(see the answer key)

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