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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 has happened to the city around the house?
(a) It has been leveled by an earthquake.
(b) It has been flooded by a burst dam.
(c) It has been flooded by massive rains.
(d) It has been leveled by a bomb.

2. What is the probable purpose of emphasizing the roundness of the smoke plume and the great quantity of smoke?
(a) It reminds the reader of a nuclear explosion.
(b) There is an implied comparison to a woman's skirts.
(c) It points out how little chance the house really had.
(d) It reinforces the "technology versus nature" motif.

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

4. What happens at ten o'clock?
(a) A stray animal wanders through the kitchen.
(b) The robot mice go back to their burrows.
(c) The sun comes out.
(d) The kitchen begins to make a second breakfast.

5. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?
(a) Apathy and resignation.
(b) Chaos and speed.
(c) Distance and irony.
(d) Confusion and doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?

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

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

4. What happens to the dog when it cannot get into the kitchen?

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

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