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

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

3. Why does the dog want to get into the kitchen so badly?
(a) Its food dish is in the kitchen.
(b) The rest of the house is filling with smoke.
(c) The house has begun making pancakes.
(d) It thinks the family is in the kitchen.

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

5. Who is Baal?
(a) An Egyptian pharaoh.
(b) A pre-Christian god.
(c) The dog that guards hell in Greek mythology.
(d) A Mesopotamian warrior.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?

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

4. What is the image of the west wall meant to allude to?

5. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?

(see the answer key)

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