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

2. Who is the author of the poem that the house reads after dinner?
(a) Longfellow.
(b) Bradbury.
(c) Teasdale.
(d) Thomas.

3. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?
(a) Punning.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Passive voice.
(d) Metaphor.

4. On what date does the story begin?
(a) April 6.
(b) April 4.
(c) August 6.
(d) August 4.

5. In which city does the story take place?
(a) Allendale.
(b) Petaluma.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?

2. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?

3. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?

4. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?

5. What happens at ten o'clock?

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