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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 can be seen on the house's west wall?
(a) The silhouettes of the family.
(b) A huge crater.
(c) Broken glass.
(d) Water beginning to seep in at the foundation.

2. Why does the house let the dog in?
(a) It wants the dog to find the family.
(b) It is an accident.
(c) It is programmed to let in any dog or cat.
(d) It recognizes the dog.

3. What does the house provide after dinner?
(a) A fire and a cigar.
(b) Games and snacks.
(c) Music and hot chocolate.
(d) A warm bath.

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

5. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?
(a) The incinerator.
(b) The city.
(c) The yard.
(d) The house.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. To what does Bradbury compare folding tables?

3. In the section about the nursery, Bradbury mentions the "sprockets" in the walls. What are "sprockets"?

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

5. "Seven-nine, breakfast time" is an example of which rhyming technique?

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