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

2. What allusion is present in the weather box's announcement of the rain?
(a) There is a reference to a popular book of Bradbury's time.
(b) There is a reference to a Greek myth about rain and death.
(c) There is a reference to a very old folk tune, often sung by children.
(d) There is a reference to a famous Dutch painting.

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

4. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?
(a) There is food spilled near the table.
(b) They are looking for the family.
(c) They are programmed to come out at nine-fifteen.
(d) They mistake the noise of the rain for an intruder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best summary of how the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" compares to the short story of the same name?

2. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?

3. To what does Bradbury compare folding tables?

4. What is the job of the robot mice?

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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