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

2. In which city does the story take place?
(a) Petaluma.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Allendale.

3. What is the name of the family that owned the house?
(a) Fitzpatrick.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) McClellan.
(d) Arthur.

4. When the story ends, what is left standing?
(a) One wall of the house.
(b) A distant building.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A tree.

5. What is the probable purpose of emphasizing the roundness of the smoke plume and the great quantity of smoke?
(a) It reinforces the "technology versus nature" motif.
(b) It reminds the reader of a nuclear explosion.
(c) There is an implied comparison to a woman's skirts.
(d) It points out how little chance the house really had.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the story begin?

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

3. Where are the "aluminium roaches and iron crickets"?

4. What has happened to the city around the house?

5. What does Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?

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