There Will Come Soft Rains – Reasoning (20+ Questions)

Complete the following sentences by providing a brief reason. Do not write the question.

1. The house keeps working even though no one is home because __________

2. The house calling people to school is sad because __________

3. The sick dog shows the bomb hurt everything because __________

4. Saying the robot mice are "angry" is strange because __________

5. The Teasdale poem is important because __________

6. The weather box singing about rain is funny because __________

7. Giving the house feelings helps the story because __________

8. The dark marks on the wall are very sad because __________

9. The cleaning liquid catching fire is meaningful because __________

10. The water sprays cannot stop the fire because __________

11. Nature wins against technology because __________

12. The robot voice survives the fire because __________

13. Not explaining the war directly makes it worse because __________

14. Machines working without people seems wrong because __________

15. The house destroys itself like people self-destroy because __________

16. Saying the time over and over shows we want control because __________

17. Making food nobody will eat is sad because __________

18. Bradbury shows the house not the people because __________

19. The future world in the story was smart to imagine because __________

20. The fire shows nature doesn't care about us because __________

21. Bradbury's warning about machines is still true today because __________

Answer Key

i) It is set to work all the time. It does not know people are gone.

ii) No one is there to go to school. The house calls for people who are dead.

iii) The dog is thin and sick. It has marks from the bomb's radiation.

iv) Machines cannot feel anger. But we say they do. This makes them seem human.

v) The poem talks about nature not caring if humans die. This is exactly what happened.

vi) People are all dead. But the box still sings about rain cheerfully.

vii) We care about the house more when we see it like a person with fear and feelings.

viii) They show exactly where people were when the bomb hit. Their bodies were burned into the wall.

ix) Humans made things to clean. But that same thing catches fire and burns everything down.

x) Technology is not strong enough to fight fire. Fire is a simple force of nature.