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

2. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?
(a) Their colors.
(b) Their sizes.
(c) Their shapes.
(d) Their faces.

3. What is the house compared to as it burns to the ground?
(a) A cigar.
(b) A bomb.
(c) A bonfire.
(d) A skeleton.

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

5. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?
(a) Paintings by well-known artists.
(b) The clothing of every member of the family.
(c) The children's toys.
(d) Vinyl record albums by famous singers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the "aluminium roaches and iron crickets"?

2. What happens at ten-fifteen?

3. What historical event is alluded to with the date given in the beginning of the story?

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

5. In the section about the nursery, Bradbury mentions the "sprockets" in the walls. What are "sprockets"?

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