F451 Two

He gagged.

"We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise."

His lungs were like burning brooms in his chest.

Which of the following is NOT a primary element of science fiction?

Faber was a grey moth asleep in his ear....

What symbol represents the restorative, renewing power of nature.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Which figure of speech is the odd practice of pretending things are people?

Which of the following is NOT a dystopian characteristic?

"I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them."

The parlor was dead.

Which of the following is NOT one of Faber's "missing things?"

What is symbolic of the challenges of acquiring and retaining knowledge.

Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius.

His hand had done it all, it had turned thief.

Montag and Clarisse walked alone together.

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

When Montag envisions Mildred's death, he suddenly realizes that he did love her.

“Hello,” whispered Montag, fascinated always with the dead beast, the living beast.

Montag sat like a carved white stone.

The mechanical hound uses its sense of smell to track its prey.

The ashes came down in a dry rain.

We're all sheep who have strayed at times.

Montag had been taking and hiding books before he ever met Clarisse McClellan.

Montag is proud of the fact that he was the first fireman in his family.

He was a luminous cloud, a ghost...

When Montag first calls Faber, Faber thinks it is some sort of trap.

The don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space.

"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books."

There was a tacking-tacking sound as the alarm report telephone typed out the address....

He made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime.

Her dress was white and it whispered.

The train radio vomited upon Montag...

Which of the following does Mildred NOT use as a means of escape?

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

What is a symbol of humanity's ability to rebuild after destruction?

It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and the delicate murmur of the old man's voice.

The community of men who Montag joins at the end have burned physical books themselves.

He was crushed by the darkness...and the million odors on the wind that iced his body.

Their covers were torn off and spilled out like swan feathers.

The firemen know which houses have books, because they conduct random searches.

Which character is paradoxical?

The door screamed as Montag opened it.

a terrible destructive or irresistible force

Montag is almost caught when everyone in town opens their doors at the same time to look for him.

Faber calls himself a coward because he once reported his friends to the authorities.

To detest; to hate strongly

Which of the following describes Montag's inner conflict?

threatening; foreboding evil

He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar and saccharine.

What is symbolic of the ability to live in an oppressive society and not be affected.

Montag didn't intend to kill Captain Beatty: Montag's finger slipped on the flame thrower, and Beatty was in the way.

The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.

Sharp; keen; cutting straight to the heart of the matter

What happens when the war finally takes place?

What is symbolic of one's search for true and accurate self-understanding

The Hound growled again, a strange rasping combination of electric sizzle....

It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light...