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

2. At one point, Bradbury says that the house has a "preoccupation" with self-protection. What must be true about the house?
(a) It is bored by the idea of protecting itself.
(b) It is constantly trying to protect itself.
(c) It does not see a reason to try to protect itself.
(d) It is willing to do terrible things to protect itself.

3. When the story ends, what is left standing?
(a) A tree.
(b) One wall of the house.
(c) A distant building.
(d) Nothing.

4. To what story do the robot mice allude?
(a) Snow White.
(b) Little Red Riding Hood.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Beauty and the Beast.

5. 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?
(a) Tragic and melodramatic.
(b) Amusing and nostalgic.
(c) Frantic and chaotic.
(d) Haunting and ironic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?

2. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?

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

4. Bradbury mentions that martinis "manifested" on tables. What did the martinis do?

5. Why does the dog want to get into the kitchen so badly?

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