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

2. What does the house do with the uneaten breakfast?
(a) Puts it in the refrigerator.
(b) Leaves it sitting on the table with the rest of the uneaten meals.
(c) Scrapes it into the dog's dish.
(d) Throws it away.

3. What historical event is alluded to with the date given in the beginning of the story?
(a) The beginning of the Cold War.
(b) The first testing of a nuclear bomb.
(c) The bombing of Hiroshima.
(d) The beginning of World War II.

4. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
(a) The movement of flames destroying the earth.
(b) The movement of feathers in the sunshine.
(c) The color of a male robin's breast.
(d) The color of the rays of the sun coming over the horizon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?

2. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?

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

4. What is the job of the robot mice?

5. In the image of animals, the panther is said to be "cavorting." What is this panther doing?

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