There Will Come Soft Rains

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.

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. 

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. 

How did the dog die?

• Starvation and lack of human care.
• Nuclear blast.
• It was attacked by robot mice.
• The house killed it.

Which of the following functions does the house NOT perform?

• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Announcing time
• Flying

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 

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 

Which sentence contains personification? 

• The room was ablaze in an instance.
• The wall sprays let down showers of mechanical rain.
• At ten o'clock the house began to die. 
• The quenching rain ceased. 

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 do the robot mice do?

• They announce the time.

• They feed the dog.

• They clean the house.

• They prepare the meals.