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

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

3. What happens to the dog when it cannot get into the kitchen?
(a) It scratches through the door.
(b) It runs through the house breaking things.
(c) It dies.
(d) It leaves the house.

4. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?
(a) The incinerator.
(b) The stove.
(c) The dog.
(d) The house.

5. To what famous dog is this dog an allusion?
(a) Odysseus's dog.
(b) Buck, from Call of the Wild.
(c) President Lincoln's dog.
(d) Cerberus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the probable purpose of emphasizing the roundness of the smoke plume and the great quantity of smoke?

2. When the story ends, what is left standing?

3. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?

4. To what story do the robot mice allude?

5. Just before the house collapses, what does it do?

(see the answer key)

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