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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 is the probable purpose of emphasizing the roundness of the smoke plume and the great quantity of smoke?
(a) There is an implied comparison to a woman's skirts.
(b) It points out how little chance the house really had.
(c) It reinforces the "technology versus nature" motif.
(d) It reminds the reader of a nuclear explosion.

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

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

4. In the image of animals, the panther is said to be "cavorting." What is this panther doing?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Playing.
(c) Eating.
(d) Sleeping.

5. 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) Tragic and melodramatic.
(b) Amusing and nostalgic.
(c) Haunting and ironic.
(d) Frantic and chaotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?

2. What allusion is present in the weather box's announcement of the rain?

3. What does the dog do once it gets inside the house?

4. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?

5. To what does Bradbury compare folding tables?

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