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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?

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

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 happens at ten-fifteen?

5. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?

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