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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. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?
(a) Distance and irony.
(b) Apathy and resignation.
(c) Confusion and doubt.
(d) Chaos and speed.

2. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?
(a) Playing cards and having a snack.
(b) They would still be at work and school.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Having friends over to eat and listen to the radio.

3. In the section about the nursery, Bradbury mentions the "sprockets" in the walls. What are "sprockets"?
(a) Robots.
(b) Cameras.
(c) Insects.
(d) Cogwheels.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?

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

4. In which city does the story take place?

5. What historical event is alluded to with the date given in the beginning of the story?

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