Close Read: Analyze the Text
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Read this passage from "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.
Which answer choice gives the most important reason the author chose to make this comparison?
O A. to show that the house works without a purpose now that the people it served are gone
OB. to show that the house continues to function exactly as it did when people lived there
OC. to show that the house has destroyed the people instead of serving them
OD. to show that the house was once a popular and well-attended church