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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 can be seen on the house's west wall?
(a) A huge crater.
(b) The silhouettes of the family.
(c) Water beginning to seep in at the foundation.
(d) Broken glass.

2. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?
(a) Eggs, toast, and bacon.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Pancakes and bacon.
(d) Eggs and hash browns.

3. Why does the house let the dog in?
(a) It is an accident.
(b) It is programmed to let in any dog or cat.
(c) It recognizes the dog.
(d) It wants the dog to find the family.

4. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?
(a) The animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(b) The nursery is the only room that does not turn on its sprinklers.
(c) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(d) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.

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

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

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

4. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?

5. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?

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