Unit 1, Topic 2 Quiz Review - There Comes Soft Rains

When you give a non-living item a human characteristic this is called...

• personification

• climax

• evidence

I ______ picked up the new baby to hold her when she cried.

• fast

• tremoulous

• delicately

I was ______ when it was dark and I tried to walk through my basement.

• tremulous

• speedy

• confident

What was the world ending event in the story?

• aliens

• hurricane

• nuclear disaster

What are the parents doing at the time of the atomic bomb?

• Attending a meeting.

• Reading a story.

• Working in the garden.

In the story, what happens to the dog?

• It hides in the basement until someone rescues it.

• It dies because it cannot get food.

• It runs away and never comes back.

What happens to the automated house?

• It is unable to put out the fire.

• It is struck by lightening.

• It keeps the dog alive.

A word that describes a noun is ...

• pronoun

• adjective

• verb

This is a person, place, thing, or idea.

• verb

• none

• noun

What is the action or state of being word called?

• verb

• pronoun

• grammar