There Will Come Soft Rains

"The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow..." (Bradbury). This quote implies:

• At night the television would turn on

• The neighborhood was destroyed by a nuclear weapon

• This house was built in the past

• The house was lonely

The five silhouettes consisted of a man, a woman, two children, and a...

• ball

• dog

• tree

• mailbox

What was the significance of the poem? Mark only one oval.

• It was written in couplets and the rhyme scheme was ABC BC BC.

• It seemed to offer a perspective into the insignificance of human beings portrayed in the story

• It offered hope for the house because it still had one job to do: reading a poem.

• It seemed to offer a thought about how little humans might use technology in the future.

When reading the line, "The dog was gone" (Bradbury), the reader should infer: Mark only one oval.

• The dog was destroyed the moment the bomb exploded.

• The dog ran away from the house.

• The dog's body had been cleaned up.

• The dog was not important to the family.

The house read a poem to Mrs. McClellan written by which author? Mark only one oval.

• Robert Frost

• Maya Angelou

• Ray Bradbury

• Sara Teasdale

"The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places...Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant..." (Bradbury). When reading this quote, what does the word titanic most likely mean? Mark only one oval.

• a ship

• of great size

• incredibly sad

• of little importance

Which type of figurative language is shown in this piece of text "...the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves..." (Bradbury)? Mark only one oval.

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

Which type of figurative language is shown in this piece of text "But the fire was clever" (Bradbury)? Mark only one oval.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

What is shown by this piece of text, "...the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips..." (Bradbury)?

• the owners were throwing a huge party that night and needed a lot of food

• the family is very large and always requires large amounts of food

• the house was malfunctioning

• the house was hungry and the fire was clever

Based on the text, "In the living room the voice-clock sang, 'Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock!' as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into emptiness...In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk" (Bradbury), the reader can infer that the house

• is irritated by the constant ticking of the clock

• does not need human intervention to perform its duties

• is able to do errands for the family who lives in the house

• believes that breakfast is one of the most important parts of the day