Question 1 (4 points) Read the sentences below from Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains."
"The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud. Behind it
whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience... The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last
realizing, as the house realized that only silence was here... The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire. It
ran wildly in circles, biting at its own tail, spun in a frenzy, and died."
What does the scene of the dog turning on itself symbolize in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
оа It symbolizes how the dog and robots need humans in order to function properly.
Ob It symbolizes that everything will eventually turn on itself.
Oc It symbolizes that everyone will eventually turn on others.
Od It symbolizes that animals do not possess the same intelligence as humans.
Question 2 (4 points)
Read the sentences below from Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains."
"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."
What does this metaphor reveal about the house?
a
b
The house is in charge of the humans.
The house is a sanctuary to the humans.
The house has been abandoned.
The house is afraid because it has been
C
Od
alone with no masters.