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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 the house compared to as it burns to the ground?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A cigar.
(d) A bonfire.

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

3. "Seven-nine, breakfast time" is an example of which rhyming technique?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Identical rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) End rhyme.

4. In which city does the story take place?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Allendale.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Petaluma.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?

2. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?

3. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?

4. At one point, Bradbury says that the house has a "preoccupation" with self-protection. What must be true about the house?

5. What is the first thing that the voice-clock announces?

(see the answer key)

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