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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 first thing that the voice-clock announces?
(a) Time to get up.
(b) It is raining.
(c) Time for work.
(d) Time for breakfast.

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

3. To what story do the robot mice allude?
(a) Beauty and the Beast.
(b) Snow White.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Little Red Riding Hood.

4. What does Bradbury say that the house is angry about when the dog shows up?
(a) That the dog is probably contagious.
(b) That the family is not with it.
(c) The disturbance to its routine.
(d) Needing to clean up the mud from its feet.

5. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?
(a) It stresses the forgetfulness of the family.
(b) It reinforces the similarity of everything that the voice clock says.
(c) It echos the language of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
(d) It demonstrates a positive attitude toward technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the fire, what does Bradbury compare the house's dialogue to?

2. Who does the story imply is still alive in the city?

3. "Mr. Featherstone" is an example of what literary technique?

4. What does "feathery fire" describe in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

5. What happens at ten-fifteen?

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