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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?
2. What does Bradbury compare to Baal?
3. What happens at ten-fifteen?
4. In the section about the nursery, Bradbury mentions the "sprockets" in the walls. What are "sprockets"?
5. What is the name of the family that owned the house?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain what is ironic about the rain in the nursery scenery.
2. What is suggested by the fact that the house repeats the date "three times for memory's sake"?
3. How do the cleaning mice allude to Cinderella, and what is the purpose of this allusion?
4. Explain what evidence there is that the house deliberately causes the dog's death.
5. In what way is the house's "speech" like nursery rhymes, and what is the purpose of this choice?
6. Explain the purpose of the story's allusion to Longfellow's poem "The Children's Hour."
7. Explain how the pun in the line "The morning house lay empty" explains why the house is empty and foreshadows the story's later revelation of the family's fate.
8. What is ironic about Bradbury's use of rain in this story?
9. What is the purpose of ending the story with the house fire? Why not just end it with the reading of the Teasdale poem?
10. Describe the image that ends the story and explain its significance.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Bradbury's time, nuclear war seemed like the most serious threat to humanity's future. What seems like the most serious threat today? Choose a threat to defend as the most serious, and defend your choice with researched evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze how Bradbury uses structure to convey meaning in "There Will Come Soft Rains." Explain what the structure is, how it is created, and how this helps advance a particular message.
Essay Topic 3
Look again at the passage that begins with "The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants." What metaphor is being developed in this passage, and what is its meaning?
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