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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. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The living room.
(d) The nursery.

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

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

4. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?
(a) The animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(b) The nursery is the only room that does not turn on its sprinklers.
(c) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(d) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.

5. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?
(a) The fire is started when one of the cleaning mice knocks over a cleaning product.
(b) The fire is started when the natural world intrudes into the house.
(c) The fire is started when the house's elaborate machinery begins to break down.
(d) The fire is started by the family dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the family that owned the house?

2. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?

3. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?

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

5. What has happened to the city around the house?

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