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

2. The line "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Paradox.

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

4. Who is the author of the poem that the house reads after dinner?
(a) Teasdale.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Bradbury.
(d) Longfellow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Bradbury compare folding tables?

2. What is the reaction of nature to the end of human existence in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

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

4. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?

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?

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