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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 does the breakfast stove make for breakfast?
(a) Eggs and hash browns.
(b) Pancakes and bacon.
(c) Eggs, toast, and bacon.
(d) Pancakes.

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

3. To what does the phrase "the children's hour" allude?
(a) A poem by Longfellow.
(b) A fairy tale.
(c) A nursery rhyme.
(d) A poem by Teasdale.

4. What is strange about how the nursery reacts to the fire?
(a) The animal images seem to be aware of the fire.
(b) The nursery deliberately opens its windows during the fire.
(c) The nursery is the only room that does not turn on its sprinklers.
(d) The voice in the nursery walls begins singing an old children's song.

5. Where are the "aluminium roaches and iron crickets"?
(a) In the garage.
(b) In the nursery.
(c) In the yard.
(d) In the walls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is thematically important about the cause of the fire in the kitchen?

2. What is the job of the robot mice?

3. Just before the house collapses, what does it do?

4. What is the house compared to as it burns to the ground?

5. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?

(see the answer key)

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