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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 is the image of the west wall meant to allude to?
(a) An asteroid strike.
(b) Similar silhouettes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(c) A recent riot in Los Angeles.
(d) The Biblical flood.

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

3. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?
(a) The epilogue of a play.
(b) A person's last words.
(c) The poem "There Will Come Soft Rains."
(d) A nursery rhyme.

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

5. What is unusual about the images of the African animals?
(a) Their faces.
(b) Their colors.
(c) Their sizes.
(d) Their shapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?

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

3. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?

4. When the narrator tells readers that it seems like the voice-clock is worried that no one will get up, this is an example of what technique?

5. What is the name of the poem that the house reads after dinner?

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