There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

What is the setting of the story?

• Allendale, California

  May 4, 1976

• Albertsville, California

  August 4, 2026

• Allendale, California

  August 4, 2026

• Albertsville, California

  May 4, 2026

Who is the main character within the story?

• A house.

• A dog.

• A family of four.

• A talking computer.

What was the purpose of the electrical mice?

• Their purpose was to complain.

• Their purpose was to let the dog inside.

• Their purpose was to help cook.

• Their purpose was to clean the house.

There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, trash was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner.

What literary device is being employed in the above text?

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind.

What does the above text imply that the mice did with the dog?

• They hummed a song as he slept.

• They put him in the incinerator.

• They ate him up.

• They cleaned the leaves he let in the house.

Which of the following lines gives readers a hint about how the world ended?

• A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. Cleaning solvent, bottled, shattered over the stove. The room was ablaze in an instant.

• It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up.

• At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.

• Heat snapped mirrors like the first brittle winter ice. And the voices wailed. Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme...

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat--

• --its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air.

• The fire crackled up the stairs.

• In the nursery the jungle burned. Blue lions roared, purple giraffes bounded off.

An aluminium wedge scraped them into the sink, where hot water whirled them down a metal throat which digested and flushed them away to the distant sea.

It quivered at each sound, the house did.

Now the fire lay in beds, stood in windows, changed the colors of drapes!

The items above are all examples of...

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Why is the house empty? Where is the family?

• There are no clues given about the family.

• They moved to another neighborhood.

• They died in a nuclear war.

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At what time does the house begin to die?

• 7 am

• Noon

• 10 pm