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

2. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?
(a) "There Will Come Soft Rains."
(b) "The Children's Hour."
(c) "August 6."
(d) "Fire and Ice."

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

4. On what date does the story begin?
(a) August 4.
(b) April 6.
(c) August 6.
(d) April 4.

5. 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) Haunting and ironic.
(b) Frantic and chaotic.
(c) Amusing and nostalgic.
(d) Tragic and melodramatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city does the story take place?

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

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

4. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

5. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?

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