ISC Prism Workbook Solutions Chapter 8 There Will Come Soft Rains
There Will Come Soft Rains Story Long Answer Questions
Question 1.
Vividly describe what happened when the dog entered the automated house.
Answer:
The Automated house had a very developed gadget to keep vigilance of the house. It never failed to interrogate anyone tiying to enter the house. It asked for password if anything approached such as foxes and cats, at it also shuts the window and draws the shade if a bird flies near the house. It has done so as if the house were paranoid.
Despite of all this vigils, a dog enters the house. It is because the house is used to its voice. Once huge and fleshy the dog has been reduced to skeleton due to starvation. The body was filled with sores, as exposed to radioactive rays of nuclear explosion. The condition of the dog clearly indicates that something catastrophic had happened to the occupants of the house.
The dog goes franatically from door to door of the house in search of its occupants. It fails to find anyone except the working gadgets-like the robotic clean mice running after him to clear the mud track created by the dog.
Later the dog begins to froth at the mouth and collapses and dies eventually. Delicately sensing decay, the house’s cleaning mice goes into the room to remove the dog. It dead body was deposited into the incinerator in the cellar.
Question 2.
Describe in detail how the automated house turned into ruins?
Answer:
In Ray Bradbury’s short science fiction “There Will Come Self Rains” we come to know about an automated house where all various technologically developed gadgets worked labouriously to provide human comfort and ease. The house was devoid of human existence, which was the result of nuclear explosion last night. The automated devices performed their daily routine.
Late in the night, a furious wind blew which knocked a tree in the kitchen window. The cleaning solvent kept near the window fell over the burning stove and a fire started to engulf the house. The automated house tried to save itself with fire extinguishers, but water ran out. Modem technology was pressed into service. Work and confusion went together.
There was confusion and pandemonium all around. Sarcastically the author explained that the colourful animals on the glowing walls of the nursery walls fled in panic, and the programmed device recited the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains”.
The huge fire burnt the house and its well equipped gadgets. The house could not with stand anymore and collapsed. Smoke poured from the rubble. One one wall stood alone with remnant voice declaring in a frightened and wierd tone the phrase “Today is August 5, 2026”. The voice reminds us the sad tale of the house and its inmates before the nuclear explosion.
There Will Come Soft Rains Story Short Answer Questions
Question 1.
What kind of story is “There Will Come Soft Rains”?
Answer:
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a science fiction. It narrates the story of an automatic lone house that stands intact and unaffected in a California city that has been annihilated by nuclear bomb. The main theme of the story is the horrors of nuclear war.
Ray Bradbury explores and reveals with grim ironies the effect of technological developments like the robotic mice and mechanical labour saving devices aimed at providing ease and Comfort to mankind. The tone of the story throughout is serious as the author warns us of the dangers of technology awaiting humans.
Question 2.
Which activities are performed by the gadgets in the automated house at seven o’clock?
Answer:
At seven o’clock the alarm cock gadgets “tich locked” and declared the time and requested the inmates of the house to get up. The clock ticked repeatedly as no one responded to stop it. At seven to nine it declared breakfast and engaged in its preparation.
Question 3.
Who were the occupants of the house?
Answer:
The entire McClellan family were the or upant of the house that comprised of Mr. and Mrs. McClellan and their two children-a boy and a girl. They also had a pet dog. The whole family perished in the nuclear explosion so nothing could be said clearly about their profession and activities.
Question 4.
Explain the cleaning devices in the house.
Answer:
The Automated house had beautiful cleaning devices attached to it. The gadgets were filled to clean the dishes and the house. As the house had all the appliances essential for the upkeep, robot mice, which had mice-like appearance, projected out at necessary times to clean up all the dust, mud particles in the house.
Question 5.
Whose photographs were affected in the catastrophe?
Answer:
In the nuclear explosion the west side of the house was charred. In a photography-probably Mrs. McClellan-a woman bend to pick flowers remained. There were five spots of paints-the man, the woman, the children, the ball-remained. The rest were a thin layer of charcool.
Question 6.
What happened to the pet dog of the house?
Answer:
The pet of the Mcclellan family appeared for a short while. The gadget allowed the dog sensing its voice and smell. It had sores on its body and was reduced to skeleton due to starvation. The poor beast was seriously been affected by radioactive rays. It appeared restless, later frothed and died.
Question 7.
How did the house catch fire?
Answer:
Later in the night, furious winds blew and knocked a tree in the kitchen window. It tipped over a cleaning solution, which fell over the stove. It started a fire which engulfed the whole house. The house tried to save itself with fire extinguishers but water ran out. Slowly the fire destroyed the whole house except a lone wall and a lone gadget.
There Will Come Soft Rains Story Logic Based Questions
Complete the following sentences by providing a REASON for each:
Question 1.
The dog is allowed to enter the house because ………….
Answer:
The front door gadgets recognised the dog voice and allowed him by opening the door.
Question 2.
There was no one in the because …..
Answer:
At night the whole city was ruined by nuclear explosion. Only the automated house existed among the ruins.
Question 3.
The beds were warmed at night because …..
Answer:
The gadgets were programmed to heat the beds of the inmates of the house at nine o’clock as the nights are cool in California.
Question 4.
The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot water because ……
Answer:
the gadget were programmed to clean then in a germ free manner and make them dry and shiny.
Question 5.
The robot mice came out because ……
Answer:
The mice was programmed to clean the automated house and make it dust free. It came out hurriedly to clean the mud track created by the wounded pet dog.
Question 6.
The house failed to save itself from the fire because …….
Answer:
The water supply was quite exhasted and due to scarcity of adequate water, the house failed to fight with the engulfing fire.
Question 7.
No one could enter the house because ……
Answer:
The automated house was fitted with developed sensors that kept vigil on any one’s entry-whether a lonely fox or a whining cats. It only allowed the known ones like the pet dog.
Question 8.
The mice were angry because ……
Answer:
The pet dog, moved into the house tracking mud. Seeing it robotics mice were quite angry as it had to pick up mud and it created lots of inconvenience.
Question 9.
The voice tells Mrs. McClellan that it will read out the poem on its own because ……
Answer:
The machine received no suggestions about the poems preferred by Mr. Macciellan-whose existence was ended by the nuclear explosion last night.
Question 10.
The fire continued to rage because ……
Answer:
The water supply exhausted and the water pump stopped working. There was no adequate water supply to cease the fire, so the fire continued to spread throughout the house.
There Will Come Soft Rains Story MCQs
Question 1.
The author of the story “There Will Come Soft Rains” is ……
a. H.GWells
b. Ray Bradbury
c. Stephen Leacock
d. Philip. K Dick
Answer:
b. Ray Bradbury
Question 2.
The poem with same title “There Will Come Soft Rains” is written by ……
a. Walt Whitman
b. John Keats
c. Sara Teasdale
d. William Shakespeare
Answer:
c. Sara Teasdale
Question 3.
The incident of the story took place on ……
a. August 4, 2026
b. August 6, 2023
c. August 13, 2013
d. August 5, 2025
Answer:
a. August 4, 2026
Question 4.
The alarm clock of the automatic house announces which time at the beginning of the story?
a. 6 o’clock
b. 5o’cloclc
c. 7o’clock
d. 8o’clock
Answer:
c. 7o’clock
Question 5.
What did the voice repeat about Tilita?
a. birthday
b. marriage anniversary
c. appoinment with doctors
d. baby shower
Answer:
b. marriage anniversary
Question 6.
The weather-box on the front door said quietly about ……
a. strong winds
b. the possibility of rain
c. the sunny day
d. the tempest
Answer:
b. the possibility of rain
Question 7.
At what time of the day was the house cleaned?
a. 9 o’clock
b. 9:15 a.m
c. 10 o’clock
d. 10:30 a.m
Answer:
b. 9:15 a.m
Question 8.
When did the garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft air with scattering of brightness ……
a. Ten-fifteen
b. ten o’clock
c. 9:15 a.m
d. Two o’clock
Answer:
a. Ten-fifteen
Question 9.
What could be seen in the photograph of a woman?
a. painting a wall
b. picking flowers
c. washing dishes
d. washing clothes
Answer:
b. picking flowers
Question 10.
What came out from behind there rain?
a. the swallows
b. the store
c. the moon
d. the sun
Answer:
d. the sun
Question 11.
What happened to the dog that entered?
a. covered with sores
b. badly beaten
c. suffering from rabies
d. bleeding profusely
Answer:
a. covered with sores
Question 12.
Where was the incinerator lying?
a. on the porch
b. into the cellar
c. in the kitchen
d. in the backyard
Answer:
b. into the cellar
Question 13.
The incinerator was compared to ………
a. Pluto
b. evil Baal
c. Wise Solomon
d. furnace
Answer:
b. evil Baal
Question 14.
The pancakes were baked with ……
a. raisens and nuts
b. chocolate syrup
c. vanilla syrup
d. maple syrup
Answer:
d. maple syrup
Question 15.
When the dog went into the incinerators?
a. Two-fifteen
b. Twelve noon
c. Ten o’clock
d. ten fifteen
Answer:
a. Two-fifteen
Question 16.
What set the room ablaze?
a. cleaning solvent shattered over the stove
b. a match stick
c. cylinder blast
d. nuclear explosion
Answer:
a. cleaning solvent shattered over the stove
Question 17.
Which two artist and painter has been mentioned in the stry?
a. Van Gogh and Picassos
b. Rabindranath and Abanindranath
c. Picassos and Matisses
d. None of the above
Answer:
c. Picassos and Matisses
Question 18.
At the end of the story the electrical gadgets announced which date?
a. Today is August 5, 2026
b. Today is August 4, 2026
c. Today is April 20, 2023
d. Today is August 13, 2013
Answer:
a. Today is August 5, 2026