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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 strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?
(a) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(b) The animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(c) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.
(d) The nursery is the only room that does not turn on its sprinklers.

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

3. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?
(a) Paintings by well-known artists.
(b) The children's toys.
(c) The clothing of every member of the family.
(d) Vinyl record albums by famous singers.

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

5. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?
(a) The epilogue of a play.
(b) A person's last words.
(c) A nursery rhyme.
(d) The poem "There Will Come Soft Rains."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?

3. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?

4. What causes the house to temporarily "give up" as the fire spreads?

5. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?

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