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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bradbury mentions that martinis "manifested" on tables. What did the martinis do?

2. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?

3. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?

4. What is the reaction of nature to the end of human existence in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

5. The line "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn," contains an example of which technique?

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