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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. Where are the "aluminium roaches and iron crickets"?
(a) In the walls.
(b) In the nursery.
(c) In the garage.
(d) In the yard.

2. Which is the best summary of how the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" compares to the short story of the same name?
(a) The poem is a darker version of the same ideas contained in the short story.
(b) The poem focuses more on the survival of a world without humans.
(c) The poem is more hopeful about humankind's future.
(d) The poem focuses more on the role of technology in humankind's demise.

3. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?
(a) Throws it away.
(b) Leaves it sitting on the table with the rest of the uneaten meals.
(c) Puts it in the refrigerator.
(d) Scrapes it into the dog's dish.

4. What happens at ten-fifteen?
(a) A window breaks.
(b) The sprinklers begin watering the lawn.
(c) The nursery walls come to life.
(d) The house shuts itself down.

5. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?
(a) Snow.
(b) Blossoms.
(c) Ash.
(d) Butterflies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?

2. What historical event is alluded to with the date given in the beginning of the story?

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

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

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