There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury

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

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Who is the main character within the story?

• A house.

• A dog.

• A family of four.

• A talking computer.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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Who wrote the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

• Kurt Vonnegut

• Alice Walker

• Ray Bradbury

• JD Salinger

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What is the setting of "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

• Allendale, California

• Orlando, Florida

• San Diego, California

• Lincoln, Nebraska

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Why was the city "rubble and ashes"?

• There was an earthquake

• There was a nuclear explosion

• There was a hurricane

• There was a wildfire

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What was burned onto the side of the house?

• The dog playing outside

• The mother's garden

• Wild animals

• A silhouette of the family

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When does the story take place?

• January, 1950

• July, 2010

• August, 2026

• November, 1941

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