WorksheetsQuiz: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?
a)
Pleasant
b)
Sarcastic/nasty
c)
Lonely
d)
Threatening
2.
Why is no one home?
a)
The house is for sale because the owners moved away.
b)
Everyone has been killed in a nuclear explosion.
c)
Everyone is at work or school until 4:00.
d)
The house is too expensive to operate. It's abandoned.
3.
Which of the following words BEST describes the life the family probably lived?
a)
Casual
b)
Timid or scared
c)
Orderly
d)
Warlike
4.
What happenes next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window?
a)
A bottle of solvent breaks open; the house catches on fire
b)
The robot mice come to clean the floor
c)
The dog whines because it is hungry
d)
Breakfast is prepared
5.
How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story?
a)
He describes a clock which announces the time repeatedly.
b)
He numbers each section of the story
c)
He discusses how the dog's hunger increases
d)
He uses a robotic voice that serves as a calendar
6.
What is the story's setting?
a)
August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast
b)
Sometime in the near future
c)
In the distant future
d)
May 5, 2012
7.
How does the house seem to come alive?
a)
The house can do anything a person can do
b)
The house cries when its inhabitants leave
c)
The house tries to save its own life
d)
The house has a full range of human emotions
8.
Which two things are unusual about all of the characters in this story?
a)
They are all machines/robots
b)
They are all sad
c)
They work hard
d)
They are very patient
9.
How do you know the story is told in the third person point of view?
a)
The narrator tells about a time in the future.
b)
The narrator tells about many different events.
c)
The narrator is not a character in the story.
d)
The narrator is a character in the story.
10.
Why is the first line of this story ironic?:
"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Ticktock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to getup, seven o’clock" (Bradbury 98).
a)
The clock says tick tock instead of actually ticking
b)
It really isn't 7:00
c)
There is no one in the house to get up or hear the clock
d)
The story is set in the future, but clocks are still used
11.
Properly paraphrase this quote from paragraph 30:
"At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast
was like stone. An aluminum 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.The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry" (Bradbury 99)
a)
Machines scraped the cold food into a garbage disposal
b)
Cold food and dirty dishes give the machines hard work
c)
The breakfast and the dirty dishes had to be cleaned up
d)
No one appreciated the machines' hard work
12.
How does the voice clock respond to the fact that no one reacts to it?
a)
It continues doing its job
b)
It asks why no one is responding
c)
It turns itself off
d)
It becomes louder
13.
Properly paraphrase this quote:
"The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal."
a)
The rooms were made of rubber and metal
b)
Animals filled the room and cleaned them
c)
Rubber cleaning animals were busy
d)
The house was full of small, robotic animals cleaning it
14.
The ending of this story is ironic because the reader expects:
a)
The house to fall apart
b)
The house to continue its meaningless routine forever
c)
The house to be refilled with humans
d)
The tree branch to break a window and catch on fire
15.
What type of figurative language is the following quote?:
"It quivered at each sound, the house did."
a)
Allusion
b)
Personification
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Imagery
16.
What types of figurative language is the following quote?:
"And Spring herself...would scarcely know."
a)
Personification/simile
b)
Allusion/personification
c)
Imagery/personification
d)
Simile/allusion
17.
Bradbury writes, "The house was so concerned with self-protection that it almost seemed to suffer from paranoia" (Bradbury 100). Which of the following is evidence that the house is paranoid?
a)
"If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up."
b)
"The front door recognized the dog voice and opened."
c)
"The offending dust, hair, or paper, seized in miniature steel jaws, was raced back to the bur-rows"
d)
"Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich baked odor and the scent of maple syrup."
18.
Ray Bradbury wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains" in 1950 after the U.S. dropped Nuclear Weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. What is Bradbury's message about nuclear warfare? Provide evidence from the text to support your answer. Explain how the evidence reveals his perspective.
Answer Frame:
Ray Bradbury wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains" in 1950 after the U.S. dropped Nuclear Weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This narrative is about ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________This story highlights Bradbury's belief that nuclear weapons are ________________________________________ .
There are many examples throughout the story that reveal Bradbury's perspective on nuclear weaspons. One example is when he writes, "___________________________________________________________________________________"(Bradbury _). This description shows that Brabury believes nuclear warfare is __________________________________________ because ______________________________________________________.
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