The Nuclear Tourist
What vegetable are visitors to the exclusion zone not allowed to pick?
What was the year that the automated house was calling in the beginning of the story?
2026
The modest mouse makes music.
Alliteration
Who wrote There Will Come Soft Rains?
Ray Bradbury
What are the "stubborn old people, women mostly, who insist on living out their lives in the place they call home" called?
Returnees
What was the weather like that morning, as evidenced by what the house suggested the owners wear?
Rainy
Stupidly clever
Oxymoron
What was left of the house the next day?
One wall
What year was the explosion in Chernobyl?
1986
What was able to be seen "for miles" from the ruined city?
A radioactive glow
Her room was a cave.
Metaphor
As the house was burning, what did the kitchen do?
Made tons of food
How many hours passed after the explosion until officials evacuated the town of Pripyat?
36 hours
Where does the title "There Will Come Soft Rains" come from?
It was in the poem that the house read
The wind whispered into her ear.
Personification
What kind of scene did the nursery walls show?
A jungle or safari theme
What are the visitors who sneak into the exclusion zone called?
Stalkers
At what time did the house begin to die?
10 pm
I'm so tired, I can't sleep
Paradox
What type of figurative language would this be: The dog at the house died of starvation, while the house was cooking pancakes with maple syrup.