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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) The Biblical flood.
(b) Similar silhouettes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(c) A recent riot in Los Angeles.
(d) An asteroid strike.

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

3. The use of sentence fragments in the description of the spreading fire is probably intended to create what effect?
(a) Chaos and speed.
(b) Confusion and doubt.
(c) Apathy and resignation.
(d) Distance and irony.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?

2. What can be seen on the house's west wall?

3. What does the house provide after dinner?

4. When the fire travels outside and up the sides of the house, it is described as what?

5. What does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?

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