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

2. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?
(a) It reinforces the similarity of everything that the voice clock says.
(b) It demonstrates a positive attitude toward technology.
(c) It stresses the forgetfulness of the family.
(d) It echos the language of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

3. The robot mice are said to live in "warrens." This means that they live in what?
(a) Plastic sleeves.
(b) Small boxes.
(c) Networks of tunnels.
(d) Racks.

4. When the windows break and the wind makes the fire grow and spread, which thematic motif is reinforced?
(a) Technology can be dangerous.
(b) The house is a part of nature.
(c) Nature and the house are in opposition.
(d) The house is evil.

5. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Kenning.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Epithet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens at ten o'clock?

3. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?

4. What is the image of the west wall meant to allude to?

5. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?

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