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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) The silhouettes of the family.
(b) Broken glass.
(c) Water beginning to seep in at the foundation.
(d) A huge crater.

2. What happens at ten-fifteen?
(a) The sprinklers begin watering the lawn.
(b) A window breaks.
(c) The house shuts itself down.
(d) The nursery walls come to life.

3. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?
(a) Paintings by well-known artists.
(b) The clothing of every member of the family.
(c) Vinyl record albums by famous singers.
(d) The children's toys.

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

5. Bradbury mentions that martinis "manifested" on tables. What did the martinis do?
(a) Evaporated.
(b) Sparkled.
(c) Spilled.
(d) Appeared.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?

3. To what famous dog is this dog an allusion?

4. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?

5. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?

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