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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. When the narrator tells readers that it seems like the voice-clock is worried that no one will get up, this is an example of what technique?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Flashback.

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

3. What has happened to the city around the house?
(a) It has been flooded by massive rains.
(b) It has been leveled by an earthquake.
(c) It has been flooded by a burst dam.
(d) It has been leveled by a bomb.

4. Which is the best descriptor of the mood of the scene in the study, where the poem is read and music plays as a cigar slowly burns down to ash?
(a) Amusing and nostalgic.
(b) Tragic and melodramatic.
(c) Haunting and ironic.
(d) Frantic and chaotic.

5. What is the reaction of nature to the end of human existence in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
(a) Nature is puzzled and uncertain.
(b) Nature grieves the loss of humankind.
(c) Nature is unaware and indifferent.
(d) Nature celebrates the end of humankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the robot mice come out when they do?

2. What can be seen on the house's west wall?

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

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

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

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