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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. "Seven-nine, breakfast time" is an example of which rhyming technique?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) End rhyme.

2. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?
(a) The house.
(b) The city.
(c) The incinerator.
(d) The yard.

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

4. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?
(a) The wind creates flames so intense the house cannot fight them.
(b) The rain stops.
(c) The fire reaches the house's "brain" in the attic.
(d) The house stops defending itself.

5. What does the garage do when no one drives the car away?
(a) Waits and then closes again.
(b) Starts the car remotely.
(c) Announces again that it is time to go to work and to school.
(d) Uses the car horn to alert the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the story begin?

2. In which city does the story take place?

3. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?

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

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

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