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"There Will Come Soft Rains" Bradbury

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

He discusses how the dog’s hunger increases.

b)

He uses a robotic voice that serves as a calendar and time stamp.

c)

He numbers each section, beginning with the number 1.

d)

He uses a robotic voice that serves as a calendar.

2.

What could be a THEME of the story?

a)

Advances in technology will always have a positive outcome.

b)

Human nature is guilty for its own bad ending, and nature nor technology will care about us.

c)

Automated houses will be very helpful to people of the future to bring families closer.

d)

Nature will need humankind to continue on

3.

What is the story's setting?

a)

Sometime in the near future.

b)

In the very distant future.

c)

August 4, 2026, after a nuclear holocaust

d)

May 25, 2025

4.

Which of the following words best describes the type of life the family probably led?

a)

Timid

b)

Orderly

c)

Casual

d)

Playful and loose

5.

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

a)

Breakfast is prepared.

b)

The robotic mice come out to clean up the mess.

c)

The family calls a tree service to trim trees in the yard.

d)

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

6.

a figure of speech that is used to attribute human characteristics to something that is not human

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

7.

a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as"

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Simile

8.

comparison between two things

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Simile

9.

a word that sounds like the noise it describes

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Simile

10.

a purposeful exaggeration not meant to be taken literally

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Simile

11.

What happened to the family in the story?

a)

They moved.

b)

They were killed by a home invader.

c)

They were killed in a nuclear holocaust.

d)

They were kidnapped.

12.

Based on the story, Ray Bradbury would probably be in favor of---

a)

automation of all homes

b)

increasing a stockpile of weapons

c)

the disarming of all country's nuclear weapons

d)

all countries having nuclear weapons to prevent war

13.

What is the tone of the house?

a)

pleasant

b)

demanding

c)

angry

d)

sad