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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 has happened to the city around the house?
(a) It has been flooded by a burst dam.
(b) It has been flooded by massive rains.
(c) It has been leveled by an earthquake.
(d) It has been leveled by a bomb.

2. What does Bradbury metaphorically compare the house to?
(a) A closed umbrella.
(b) A bomb shelter.
(c) An elderly unmarried woman.
(d) A zoo.

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

4. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?
(a) Throws it away.
(b) Leaves it sitting on the table with the rest of the uneaten meals.
(c) Scrapes it into the dog's dish.
(d) Puts it in the refrigerator.

5. What historical event is alluded to with the date given in the beginning of the story?
(a) The beginning of World War II.
(b) The first testing of a nuclear bomb.
(c) The beginning of the Cold War.
(d) The bombing of Hiroshima.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Baal?

2. To what does the phrase "the children's hour" allude?

3. When the story ends, what is left standing?

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

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

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