There Will Come Soft Rains

 Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?

• pleasant
• lonley
• sarcastic/nasty
• threatening

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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. 

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

 What happened next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window? 

• The dog whines because it is hungry. 
• The robot mice came to clean the floor.
• A bottle of solvent breaks open; the house catches on fire.
• Breakfast is prepared.

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

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.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How does the house seem to come alive? 

•  The house tries to save its own life. 
•  The house cries when its inhabitants leave.
• The house has a full range of human emotions. 
• The house can do anything a person can do.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.9A

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. 

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Who was the antagonist in the story?

• the house 
• the fire
• the dog
• the house and thermal flash images 

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

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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CCSS.RL.8.2

The protagonist in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is 

• the McClellan family
• the dog
• the voice in the walls
• the house

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3