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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To what story do the robot mice allude?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Little Red Riding Hood.
(c) Beauty and the Beast.
(d) Snow White.
2. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?
(a) The fire is started when the house's elaborate machinery begins to break down.
(b) The fire is started when the natural world intrudes into the house.
(c) The fire is started by the family dog.
(d) The fire is started when one of the cleaning mice knocks over a cleaning product.
3. What "delicacies" does the fire consume upstairs?
(a) Vinyl record albums by famous singers.
(b) Paintings by well-known artists.
(c) The children's toys.
(d) The clothing of every member of the family.
4. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?
(a) Passive voice.
(b) Punning.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Metaphor.
5. 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 beginning of World War II.
(c) The bombing of Hiroshima.
(d) The first testing of a nuclear bomb.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?
2. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?
3. What has happened to the city around the house?
4. What is the reaction of nature to the end of human existence in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
5. Why does the dog want to get into the kitchen so badly?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the significance of the nursery decor.
2. What is ironic about Bradbury's use of rain in this story?
3. How do the cleaning mice allude to Cinderella, and what is the purpose of this allusion?
4. How does Bradbury use the dates on which the story takes place as a form of foreshadowing?
5. Explain the allusion to Odysseus's dog and how it functions in the story.
6. Explain what is ironic about the rain in the nursery scenery.
7. What is the purpose of ending the story with the house fire? Why not just end it with the reading of the Teasdale poem?
8. What is the meaning of the silhouettes on the side of the house?
9. What is suggested by the fact that the house repeats the date "three times for memory's sake"?
10. Explain the inclusion of the Sara Teasdale poem in this story.
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