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

2. To what does the phrase "the children's hour" allude?
(a) A fairy tale.
(b) A nursery rhyme.
(c) A poem by Longfellow.
(d) A poem by Teasdale.

3. 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 animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(c) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(d) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.

4. Just before the house collapses, what does it do?
(a) It announces the wrong date and time.
(b) It begins performing multiple functions over and over.
(c) It shuts down entirely except for its "voice" function.
(d) It dumps out all of the liquor, coffee, and milk in one last attempt to fight the fire.

5. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?
(a) Mischievous.
(b) Clever.
(c) Treacherous.
(d) Overwhelming.

Short Answer Questions

1. The line "And swallows circling with their shimmering sound" is an example of which technique?

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

3. In which city does the story take place?

4. Which is the best summary of how the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" compares to the short story of the same name?

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

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