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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. In the sentence "The morning house lay empty," there is an example of which technique?
(a) Punning.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Passive voice.
(d) Metaphor.

2. Just before the house collapses, what does it do?
(a) It announces the wrong date and time.
(b) It begins performing multiple functions over and over.
(c) It dumps out all of the liquor, coffee, and milk in one last attempt to fight the fire.
(d) It shuts down entirely except for its "voice" function.

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

4. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?
(a) They mistake the noise of the rain for an intruder.
(b) They are programmed to come out at nine-fifteen.
(c) They are looking for the family.
(d) There is food spilled near the table.

5. From two thirty-five to four o'clock, what can readers infer that the family would ordinarily be doing?
(a) Having friends over to eat and listen to the radio.
(b) Playing cards and having a snack.
(c) They would still be at work and school.
(d) Cleaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section about the nursery, Bradbury mentions the "sprockets" in the walls. What are "sprockets"?

2. What does the house provide after dinner?

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

4. Bradbury mentions that martinis "manifested" on tables. What did the martinis do?

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

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