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

2. "Seven-nine, breakfast time" is an example of which rhyming technique?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) End rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

3. The robot mice are said to live in "warrens." This means that they live in what?
(a) Networks of tunnels.
(b) Racks.
(c) Plastic sleeves.
(d) Small boxes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At one point, Bradbury says that the house has a "preoccupation" with self-protection. What must be true about the house?

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

3. The line "And swallows circling with their shimmering sound" is an example of which technique?

4. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?

5. What happens to the dog when it cannot get into the kitchen?

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