Test: There will come soft rains
Name: ___________________________ 11. _____
Date: May 17, 2012
SCORE: ______/ 60 PTS.
I.Using the selection choose the best answer
1.What time is covered by the events in this story?
a.
b.
c.
d.
One complete day
A morning from 7:00 A.M. to 12:00P.M.
An evening from 5:00 P.M.
Two weeks
6. What is strange about the messages read by the voices in
the house?
a. Everything the voices say is untrue.
b. No one is alive to hear them.
c. The voices predict peace, not war.
d. they are too soft to be heard.
7. Which of the following events occurs first in the story?
2. Which word best describes the actions of the house in
this story?
a. Robotic mice clean away the body of a dog that has died.
b. A computer voice reads aloud a favorite poem.
a. sneaky
b. stubborn
c. mechanical
c. During a storm, a tree limb falls and breaks a kitchen
window.
d. A man cuts the lawn and a woman picks flowers.
d. understanding
3. Based on details in the story, you can conclude that the
family
a. knew they were going to die
b. did not like living in their house
c. started a nuclear war
d. did not expect to die
8. Who are “the gods” referred to in his passage from the
story?
“ The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big,
small, servicing , attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone
away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly,
uselessly”
a.
b.
c.
d.
The mother, the father and the children who lived in the
house
Politicians who began a war and then fled to safety
The inventors responsible for creating the house
Scientists who developed the nuclear bomb
4. What does the house do in the evening?
a. It sends robot mice to clean the house.
b. It cooks and serves meal.
c. It reads a favorite poem aloud.
d. It sets playing cards on a table.
9. Based on details in the story, you can conclude that the
family died
a. in a fire caused by burning chemicals
b. as a result of a nuclear blast
c. under attack by robotic appliances
d. while running away from an army
5.Which event happens last?
a. The house burns in a fire.
b. A dog dies inside the house.
c. A voice reads a poem aloud.
d. The family dies.
10. What causes the final destruction of the house?
a. A foreign enemy unleashes a nuclear blast.
b. The programming runs wild and the house self- destructs.
c. The family destroys the home themselves.
e.
night(9:00- dawn)
d. A fire starts after a tree crashes through a window.
17. A wind knocks a tree into a kitchen window.
11. Which is the theme of the story?
a. If we lose control of technology, it will destroy us.
b. Technology never really solves any problem.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
early morning
mid- morning
early afternoon
late afternoon
night
c. Technology leads to progress which leads inevitable to
death.
18. The breakfast remains uneaten.
12. The sentence that is an example of personification is
a. The house tried to safe itself.
b. The nursery walls glowed.
a. early morning
b. mid- morning
c. early afternoon
d. late afternoon
13. Where in California is the house from this story located?
e. night
a. Anaheim
b. Allendale
c. Hollywood
14.Why is this house unique?
19. Sprinklers water the lawn.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
early morning
mid- morning
early afternoon
late afternoon
night
a. It’s the only one still standing
b. Is a new empty house.
c. Is all white with black doors.
15. What happens to the house at the end of the story?
a. A new family moved in.
b. It was destroyed by a fire.
c. The owners returned.
II. In which period of the day happened each one of the
following events?
16.The dog returns starving and sick.
a.
b.
c.
d.
early morning (7:00- 8:30)
mid- morning (9:15- Noon)
early afternoon (Noon- 4:00 PM)
late afternoon (4:35- 8:00 PM)
20.Machines make dinner.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
early morning
mid- morning
early afternoon
late afternoon
night