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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. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?
(a) Punning.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Passive voice.
(d) Parallelism.

2. In the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains," the plum trees are in "tremulous" white. Readers can infer that this refers to what?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Snow.
(c) Ash.
(d) Blossoms.

3. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?
(a) Their shapes.
(b) Their colors.
(c) Their faces.
(d) Their sizes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the house to temporarily "give up" as the fire spreads?

2. Who does the story imply is still alive in the city?

3. What happens at ten o'clock?

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

5. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?

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