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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does Bradbury compare folding tables?
(a) Books.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Folded hands.
(d) Oysters,

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

4. Who is the author of the poem that the house reads after dinner?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Teasdale.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Bradbury.

5. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?
(a) Clever.
(b) Mischievous.
(c) Overwhelming.
(d) Treacherous.

6. To what story do the robot mice allude?
(a) Beauty and the Beast.
(b) Snow White.
(c) Little Red Riding Hood.
(d) Cinderella.

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

8. The line "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Metaphor.

9. What causes the fire to eventually win the battle with the house?
(a) The fire reaches the house's "brain" in the attic.
(b) The rain stops.
(c) The wind creates flames so intense the house cannot fight them.
(d) The house stops defending itself.

10. Who does the story imply is still alive in the city?
(a) Some animals.
(b) A few scientists.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) No one.

11. What allusion is present in the weather box's announcement of the rain?
(a) There is a reference to a Greek myth about rain and death.
(b) There is a reference to a famous Dutch painting.
(c) There is a reference to a popular book of Bradbury's time.
(d) There is a reference to a very old folk tune, often sung by children.

12. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?
(a) The yard.
(b) The incinerator.
(c) The house.
(d) The city.

13. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The living room.
(c) The nursery.
(d) The bathroom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the image of the west wall meant to allude to?

3. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

4. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?

5. "The house tried to save itself" is an example of which technique?

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