Which sentence contains personification?

At ten o'clock the house began to die.

The room was ablaze in an instance.

The wall sprays let down showers of mechanical rain.

How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story?

Use of a clock which announces the time in each new section.

He numbers each section of the story.

He discusses how the dog's hunger increases.

He uses a robotic voice that serves as a calendar.

What happens after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window?

A bottle of cleaning solvent breaks open on the stove and sets the house on fire.

The dog whines because it is hungry.

The robotic mice came out to clean the floor.

“The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow...” This quote implies...

The neighborhood was destroyed by a nuclear weapon

At night the television would turn on

This house was built on the past

Bases on the details of the story, you can conclude that the family

did not like living in their house

Which time period is covered by the events in this story?

a morning from 7:00 am to 12:00 pm

an evening from 5:00pm to 9:00 pm

The speaker in "There Will Come Soft Rains" believes that the war

overshadows the arrival of spring

Which of the following events occurs first in the story?

A man cuts the lawn while a woman picks flowers.

Robotic mice clean away the body of a dog that has died.

A computer voice reads aloud a favorite poem.

During a storm, a tree limb falls and breaks a kitchen window.

What is strange about the messages read by the voices in the house?

Everything the voices say is untrue.

The voices predict peace, not war.

What does the house do in the evening?

It reads a favorite poem aloud.

It sends robot mice to clean the house.

It sets playing cards on a table.

Based on the details in the story, you can conclude that the family died

in a fire caused by burning chemicals

under the attack by robotic appliances

while running away from an army

What causes the final destruction of the house?

A fire starts after a tree crashes through a window.

A foreign enemy unleashes a nuclear blast.

The programming runs wild and the house self-destructs.

The family destroys the home themselves.

Based on the ending of the story, what will happen next?

The world will eventually start over.

The world and everything in it - including all animals - will die and nothing will remain.

The world will start over and history will repeat itself.

There Will Come Soft Rains

Authored by Elizabeth Hough

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8th Grade

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the story's setting?

Sometime in the near future.

August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast.

May 5, 2012

In the distant future.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why is no one home?

The house is too expensive to operate.

Everyone is at work or school.

Everyone has been killed.

The house is for sale.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happened to the family who lived in this house?

There are no clues about the family's current location.

They moved to another neighborhood.

They decided to spend a weekend away from home.

They died in a nuclear explosion.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the dog die?

Starvation and lack of human care.

Nuclear blast.

It was attacked by robot mice.

The house killed it.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following functions does the house NOT perform?

Cooking

Cleaning

Announcing time

Flying

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the quote, "The house was an altar with 10,000 attendants, big, small, servicing, attending in choirs. But the gods had gone away and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly," who are the gods?

the robot technology in the household

the McClellan family

the singers in the church choir

the ministers who lead the church services

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following themes best fits "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it.

Times are tough all over.

Technology is awful an ruins everything.

While technology has many benefits, it also has the power to destroy, so be careful what you create

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There Will Come Soft Rains

What is the story's setting?

Why is no one home?

What happened to the family who lived in this house?

How did the dog die?

Which of the following functions does the house NOT perform?

In the quote, "The house was an altar with 10,000 attendants, big, small, servicing, attending in choirs. But the gods had gone away and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly," who are the gods?

Which of the following themes best fits "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

Which sentence contains personification?

How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story?

What do the robot mice do?

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