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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 likely purpose of inserting the house's "dialogue" ("Help, help! Fire! Run, run!") into the scene that describes the fire consuming the house?
(a) It reinforces how helpless and pointless the technology is in the face of nature's power.
(b) It reminds the reader of the death of the family.
(c) It reminds the reader that the house is a living thing.
(d) It clarifies the order in which the house is burning, because the house can still "speak."

2. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?
(a) The house stops defending itself.
(b) The fire reaches the house's "brain" in the attic.
(c) The rain stops.
(d) The wind creates flames so intense the house cannot fight them.

3. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?
(a) That the dog is probably contagious.
(b) Needing to clean up the mud from its feet.
(c) The disturbance to its routine.
(d) That the family is not with it.

4. Who is Baal?
(a) A Mesopotamian warrior.
(b) The dog that guards hell in Greek mythology.
(c) A pre-Christian god.
(d) An Egyptian pharaoh.

5. On what date does the story begin?
(a) August 6.
(b) April 4.
(c) August 4.
(d) April 6.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the best summary of how the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" compares to the short story of the same name?

3. Who is the author of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

4. To what story do the robot mice allude?

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

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