There Will Come Soft Rains

 Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?

• pleasant
• lonley
• sarcastic/nasty
• threatening

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the mood at the beginning of the text.

• disorderly, chaotic, noisy

• peaceful, calm, orderly

• jubilant, overjoyed

• loving, affectionate

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

At the beginning of "There Will Come Soft Rains," the stove prepares eight pieces of toast, eight eggs, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two glasses of milk. What can you conclude is most likely to be true about the McClellan family, based on this information and other details?

• The family is having guests over for breakfast.

• Two of the family members are allergic to milk.

• The stove usually burns the toast and undercooks the eggs.

• There are four family members, and two of them are children.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

Where are the human beings in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

• They are at work or at school.

• They have moved to a different city.

• They have been killed by a nuclear bomb.

• They are being held prisoner in the basement of an automated house.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

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...

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why was the city "rubble and ashes"?

• There was an earthquake

• There was a nuclear explosion

• There was a hurricane

• There was a wildfire

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What was burned onto the side of the house?

• The dog playing outside

• The mother's garden

• Wild animals

• A silhouette of the family

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why was the dog allowed in the house?

• He went through the doggy-door without the house realizing.

• He was a family pet; the house recognized him.

• He was a stray that really needed help, and the house knows first aid.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

Which textual evidence suggests that

the dog died of radiation poisoning from a bomb?

• "The front door recognized the dog voice and opened. The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud."

• "A dog whined, shivering, on the front porch."

• "It ran wildly in circles, biting at its tail, spun in a frenzy, and died."

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CCSS.RL.8.1

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.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1