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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 is the job of the robot mice?
(a) Entertaining the dog.
(b) Entertaining the children.
(c) Alerting the house to intruders.
(d) Cleaning.

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

3. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?
(a) Seafoam.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Snakes.

4. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Epithet.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Paradox.

5. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?
(a) Eggs and hash browns.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Eggs, toast, and bacon.
(d) Pancakes and bacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?

2. At one point, Bradbury says that the house has a "preoccupation" with self-protection. What must be true about the house?

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

4. What does the house provide after dinner?

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

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