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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. To what does the phrase "the children's hour" allude?
(a) A fairy tale.
(b) A nursery rhyme.
(c) A poem by Longfellow.
(d) A poem by Teasdale.

2. What is the likely purpose of inserting the house's "dialogue" ("Help, help! Fire! Run, run!") into the scene that describes the fire consuming the house?
(a) It reinforces how helpless and pointless the technology is in the face of nature's power.
(b) It clarifies the order in which the house is burning, because the house can still "speak."
(c) It reminds the reader that the house is a living thing.
(d) It reminds the reader of the death of the family.

3. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Punning.
(c) Passive voice.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?
(a) Their sizes.
(b) Their colors.
(c) Their shapes.
(d) Their faces.

5. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?
(a) That the family is not with it.
(b) That the dog is probably contagious.
(c) Needing to clean up the mud from its feet.
(d) The disturbance to its routine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which city does the story take place?

3. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?

4. What is the name of the family that owned the house?

5. The robot mice are said to live in "warrens." This means that they live in what?

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