WorksheetsThere Will Come Soft Rains--Bradbury and Teasdale
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
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/What 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 these answers most likely explain why the dog died?
He died of starvation because he was terribly thin and covered in sores.
He seized up and died because he was very hungry and could not get to the food in the kitchen.
He had a seizure because he bit his tongue and started foaming at the mouth.
He couldn't live any longer because he had no humans to take care of him.
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 an example of personification?
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.
What theme does this poem and the story share?
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war,
not one Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone."
Both share the theme that nature is indifferent to humans destroying themselves.
Both share the theme that life would carry on if humans were to destroy themselves in war.
Both share the theme that nature is beautiful and springtime is filled with rain.
Both share the theme that nature doesn't like to be disturbed.
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
The speaker in the poem believes that nature will
change every spring
cause a war
perish during spring
outlast humans
The speaker of the poem best believes that war
overshadows the arrival of spring
goes unnoticed by nature
will destroy nature and humanity
distracts nature from proceeding
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.
