There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

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15 Qs

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There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

Assessment

Quiz

English

9th Grade

Hard

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why is the poem important when reading the story?

Because the poem is in the story

Because the same person wrote both

Because the poem has similar themes to the story

Because the story is based off the poem

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Who wrote the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

Robert Frost

Shel Silverstein

Sara Teasdale

Edgar Allan Poe

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the overall tone of this story?

Horrific

Joyful

Humorous

Ironic

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why is the opening of the story ironic? "In the living room the voice-clock sang, 'Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, seven o'clock!' as if it were afraid that nobody would."

It isn't really 7:00 AM

There is no one in the house to get up and hear the clock.

The story is set in the future, but clocks are still used.

The clock says tick tock instead of actually ticking.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the overall tone of the story?

Horrific

Joyful

Humorous

Ironic

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is a theme from the story?

Technology is amazing and should be used whenever possible.

Eat lots of bacon.

Nuclear weapons are essential to survival.

Humans should be careful with technology and it's potential to cause harm.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

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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