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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 the breakfast stove make for breakfast?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Eggs and hash browns.
(c) Pancakes and bacon.
(d) Eggs, toast, and bacon.

2. "The house tried to save itself" is an example of which technique?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

3. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?
(a) It reinforces the similarity of everything that the voice clock says.
(b) It demonstrates a positive attitude toward technology.
(c) It echos the language of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
(d) It stresses the forgetfulness of the family.

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

5. When the windows break and the wind makes the fire grow and spread, which thematic motif is reinforced?
(a) Technology can be dangerous.
(b) The house is evil.
(c) Nature and the house are in opposition.
(d) The house is a part of nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?

3. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?

4. The robot mice are said to live in "warrens." This means that they live in what?

5. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?

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