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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 is the best descriptor of the mood of the scene in the study, where the poem is read and music plays as a cigar slowly burns down to ash?
(a) Haunting and ironic.
(b) Amusing and nostalgic.
(c) Frantic and chaotic.
(d) Tragic and melodramatic.

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

3. In which city does the story take place?
(a) Allendale.
(b) Petaluma.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Sacramento.

4. The line "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Personification.

5. What happens at ten o'clock?
(a) The sun comes out.
(b) The robot mice go back to their burrows.
(c) A stray animal wanders through the kitchen.
(d) The kitchen begins to make a second breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that the voice-clock announces?

2. When the windows break and the wind makes the fire grow and spread, which thematic motif is reinforced?

3. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?

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

5. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

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