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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?pleasantlonleysarcastic/nastythreatening - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhy 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.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following words BEST describes the life the family probably lived?timid or scaredwarlikecasualorderly
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat 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.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceHow 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.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceBased on this story, Bradbury would be in favor ofIncreasing our stockpile of nuclear weapons.Nuclear disarmament.Automating all houses.People doing their own housework.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the story's setting?Sometime in the near future.August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast.May 5, 2012In the distant future.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceHow 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.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat is unusual about all of the characters in this story?They are very patient.They are not human.They work hard.They are all machines/ robots.
- 10. Multiple ChoiceHow do you know the story is told in the third person point of view?Narrator uses descriptive language.The narrator tells about a time in the future.The narrator is not a character in the story.The narrator tells about many different events.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhy does the first sentence turn out to be ironic?It really isn't 7:00.There is no one in the house to get up or hear the clock.The clock says tick tock instead of actually ticking.The story is set in the future, but clocks are still used.
- 12. Multiple ChoiceReread the "At eight -thirty the eggs ..." paragraph. What is the best paraphrase?No one appreciated the machines' hard workCold food and dirty dishes give the machines' hard workMachines scraped the cold food into a garbage disposal.The breakfast and the dirty dishes had to be cleaned up.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceHow does the voice clock respond to the fact that no one reacts to it?It asks why no-one is responding.It becomes louder.It turns itself off.It continues doing it's job.
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat happened to the family who lived in this house? Hide answersThere are no clues about the family's current location.They moved to another neighborhood.They decided to spend a weekend away from home.They died in a nuclear explosion.
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich sentence contains imagery? (senses)Gentle sprinkler rain filled the house with falling light.This was the one house left standing.After a long wait, the door swung down.The front door heard the dog voice and opened.
- 16. Multiple Choice"The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal." ParaphraseRubber cleaning animals were busy.Animals filled the room and cleaned them.The house was full of small, robotic animals cleaning it.The rooms were made of rubber and metal.
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe ending of this story is ironic because the reader expects....The house to fall apart.The house to continue its meaningless routine forever.The tree branch to breaks a window and catch on fire.The house to be refilled with humans.
- 18. Multiple Choice"It quivered at each sound, the house did.", is an example of what figurative language?imagerypersonificationoxymoronallusion
- 19. Multiple Choice"And Spring herself...would scarcely know" is an example of what figurative languages?imagery/personificationallusion/personificationpersonification/similesimile/allusion
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhich 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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