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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 Bradbury say is like "an altar with ten-thousand attendants"?
(a) The yard.
(b) The city.
(c) The house.
(d) The incinerator.

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

3. What does the house provide after dinner?
(a) Music and hot chocolate.
(b) Games and snacks.
(c) A fire and a cigar.
(d) A warm bath.

4. What effect is the constant repetition and rhyming of the voice-clock probably meant to have?
(a) It demonstrates a positive attitude toward technology.
(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 stresses the forgetfulness of the family.

5. Which room recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the African savanna?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The nursery.
(d) The living room.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the image of animals, the panther is said to be "cavorting." What is this panther doing?

3. What does Bradbury metaphorically compare the house to?

4. What does Bradbury compare the chemical fire-fighting foam to?

5. What causes the house to temporarily "give up" as the fire spreads?

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