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Fahrenheit 451
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1
Why did Montag burn the book of poetry in the wall incinerator in his home?
He was addicted to burning
He didn't like the poems.
To show the ladies he was playing a joke on them.
To to save his relationship with his wife.
2
Describe Clarisse McClellan
She is shy and slightly handicapped.
She is a young girl who likes to think and talk.
She is extremely rigid and law-abiding.
She's a flirt whose concern is getting men to like her
3
What literature did Montag preserve?
It was the Constitution of the United States.
It was all of Shakespeare's plays.
It was War and Peace.
It was the Book of Ecclesiastes.
4
Who is Guy Montag?
He is a fireman.
He is a doctor.
He is a librarian.
He is the mayor.
5
Who was the final informant on Montag's home?
It was Faber.
It was Beatty.
It was Mrs. Phelps.
It was Mildred.
6
Where did Montag go after he killed Beatty?
He went to Mildred's friend's house.
He went to Faber's house.
He went to the firehouse.
He went for a long, fast ride in his beetle.
7
Who is Mildred?
She is a doctor at Emergency Hospital.
She is a writer who has gone underground.
She is Clarisse's mother.
She is Montag's wife.
8
What was different about the fire Montag saw after leaving the river?
It was considerably cooler.
It was only giving off low flames.
It was giving warmth and comfort, not destroying things.
It was fueled by natural wood instead of chemicals.
9
Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty?
Beatty pushed his buttons.
He wanted to stop the firemen from burning more books.
Beatty asked him to.
Beatty discovered Montag was wearing a transmitter.
10
How were these men preserving literature?
They were burying books in holes along the railroad tracks.
Each man had memorised a piece of literature.
They had built a secret fireproof library underground
Each carried a backpack full of books.
11
Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat the patient?
Doctors only treated men.
The patient didn't have enough insurance
That kind of medical procedure was so common
There weren't enough doctors
12
How did the firemen know which houses had books?
The fire dogs could sniff them out.
People became informants and telephoned the authorities.
The books all had bar codes on the backcovers.
They conducted random searches.
13
What was different about the hobos Montag met?
They were clean and well-fed.
They were all former firemen.
They were all intellectuals.
They were all horribly disfigured by fire.
14
Why didn't Montag run away before he killed Captain Beatty?
He wanted to make sure Mildred was safe.
He wanted to stay and watch his house burn
He knew that the mechanical hound was in the neighborhood
Faber told him to stay where he was.
15
Where did Montag hide his books after the ladies left?
He hid them behind a false wall.
He hid them in his backyard.
He hid them in down his toilet.
He hid them in the firehouse.
16
The firemen wanted to provide as much of a show as possible. How did they do this?
They had the fires at night when they look prettier.
They had a famous person start the blaze.
They made watching mandatory for everyone
They advertised
17
What did Montag and the intellectuals believe their mission to be once the war was ended?
They wanted to convert survivors to their way of thinking
They wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
They wanted to pursue and kill any remaining firemen.
They wanted to learn from previous mistakes
18
When Montag left Faber's house, which direction did he go?
He headed across the state to the mountains.
He headed for Vegas, baby! Vegas!
He headed for the river.
He headed for the spaceport.
19
Describe Montag's job.
He teaches school.
He maintains information files for the city.
He is a curator in a museum.
He finds books and burns them.
20
What happened during the war?
The city was damaged, but not seriously.
The city self-destructed in a blazing fireball.
The city and its inhabitants were destroyed.
Both sides called a truce.
21
Montag identified something he saw in his travels as a path to safety. What was it?
It was a series of road signs.
It was the railroad tracks.
It was the lights from the airport runway.
It was the North Star.
22
What was Montag afraid would happen when the Captain came to visit?
Find the stolen book
Eat all of his food
Reduce his pay
Stay the night
23
What did Montag do after the Captain had left the house?
He showed Mildred the books he had been hiding.
He disinfected everything the Captain had touched.
He sat and cried.
He went out for a long walk.
24
What had Faber designed that allowed him to be in constant contact with Montag?
He had made a continuum transfunctioner.
He had designed a TV monitor.
He had installed a thought-wave amplifier
He had designed an electronic radio earpiece.
25
Where did Clarisse get most of her information about the way life used to be?
From Beatty
She learned it in history class.
She watched old videos.
Her uncle told her.
26
What was Montag willing to do to convince Faber to help carry out the plan?
He would pay Faber
He would quit his job and move in with Faber.
He would do the first five operations byhimself
He would destroy his book until Faber would cooperate.
27
What did Montag do in the old lady's attic?
He took a book.
He destroyed all of her old family pictures.
He sat and cried.
Carved I heart Natalie into the wall.
28
Clarisse asked Montag a question. His reply was, "No." What was the question?
Had he ever committed a crime?
Did he ever want to get married?
Could he read?
Was he happy?
29
What was the destination of the alarm on the night Montag returned to work at the firehouse?
The destination was the hospital.
The destination was Montag's home.
The destination was the town library.
It was Faber's home.
30
Why did Montag go to see Faber?
He wanted to get information about others who had books
He wanted to ask about reading
He wanted Faber to translate the books
Faber had been a friend of Montag's wife's family
31
What did the old woman do?
She lit the match and then committed suicide.
She danced and threw more books on the blaze.
She locked herself in her apartment and refused to watch.
She dressed in black, knelt before the fire, and prayed
32
According to Mildred, what happened to Clarisse?
She was attacked by a pack of mechanical hounds.
She was hit by a car.
She ran off and married Faber.
She was hypnotised and forced to change her thinking.
33
What smelled like perfume to Montag?
It was the cooking fumes from the restaurant.
It was the kerosene.
Iwas the printers ink on the books.
It was the smoke from the fireplace.
34
During the manhunt for Montag, why did the camera identify an innocent man as Montag?
Nobody really knew what Montag looked like.
Faber misled them to get them off Montag's trail.
The computer that was tracking him malfunctioned.
The firemen needed put a neat ending on the day's work.
35
Which of the following does Faber think is missing from life?
Leisure time to think.
Sophisticated technology.
The right to sing in the train.
The satisfaction of being able to drive fast.
36
What were parlor walls?
They were barricades
They were portable
They were a kind of surround television
They were hidden microphones
37
What happened to her?
She had just been promoted to a position of power
She contracted a fatal, contagious disease
She took an overdose of sleeping pills
She was captured and sent to a prison camp.
38
Who was Faber?
He was second in command after Beatty.
He was the chief physician at the hospital.
He was a retired English professor.
He was Montag's brother-in-law.
39
Why did Faber decide to go to St. Louis?
He wanted to raise funds for their project.
He wanted to get away from Montag for a while.
He needed electronic parts for his mechanical hound.
He wanted to enlist the help of an unemployed printer.
40
What lie did Captain's Beatty tell Montag?
He told Montag that authors had never beenappreciated
That Montag would get a promotion at work
He told Montag that women were too delicate to be workers.
He told Montag firemen had never been used to stop fires,
41
Why did Montag take whiskey, a suitcase, and some of Faber's dirty clothes with him?
He wanted to get really drunk and do drycleaning.
He wanted to help Faber.
To throw the dogs off his scent.
He wanted to disguise himself as a drunken bum.
42
There was a robotic animal equipped with a needle, and programmed to hunt and kill.What was it?
It was a spider.
It was a hound.
It was a lion.
It was dragon.
43
Clarisse's family appreciates talking. How's this viewed by others?
She was revered as a holy one.
She was thought to be insane.
She was tolerated with amusement.
She was considered anti-social.
44
What did Montag believe had been done to the animal?
It had been programmed to act against Montag.
It had been programmed to attack the elderly.
It had been programmed to beg for money.
It had been programmed to do tricks.
45
What plan did Montag and Faber devise?
They were going to plant books in firemen's houses
To replace the kerosene with a non-flammable liquid.
They would call Quintin for help
They were going to develop a virus
46
What did Captain Beatty believe?
He believed that the world was about to end
He believed that firemen should be the highest paid
He believed that people should be masters of their destiny
He believed books put upsetting thoughts in people's minds
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Who was Captain Beatty?
He was Clarisse's uncle.
He was the mayor.
He was a retired naval officer.
He was Montag's boss at work.
