Fahrenheit 451 Chapter One/Hearth and the Salamander

Question 1

What happens to people who are found to have books?

Accepted Answer

They're taken to the asylum

Question 2

How does Clarisse describe school?

Accepted Answer

Students are kept active, but not encouraged to think

Question 3

Why doesn't Montag want Mildred fussing with the bed covers?

Accepted Answer

She'll discover the book

Question 4

Figurative Language: Her flesh was like white bacon.

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 5

Why does Beatty hate books?

Accepted Answer

Books couldn't answser his questions

Question 6

What do the men do to Mildred?

Accepted Answer

pump her stomach and put in fresh blood

Question 7

How does Clarisse feel about other children?

Accepted Answer

She's afraid of them

Question 8

When Mildred awakens in the morning, she feels __________

Accepted Answer

hungry

Question 9

When Montag calls for help for his wife, who shows up?

Accepted Answer

two men

Question 10

What question does Clarisse ask that fractures Montag's world?

Accepted Answer

Are you happy?

Question 11

The school administration accuses Clarisse of being ______

Accepted Answer

antisocial

Question 12

What are the two symbols of the firemen?

Accepted Answer

phoenix/salamander

Question 13

Who said it? We shall this day light such a candle, ...as trust shall never be put out.

Accepted Answer

Old Woman

Question 14

Montag is upset to discover that he can't remember _____

Accepted Answer

where he and Mildred met

Question 15

What time of year does the story take place?

Accepted Answer

Fall

Question 16

What is the "single slender object" in the old woman's hand?

Accepted Answer

a match

Question 17

How does the Mechanical Hound find its prey?

Accepted Answer

By tracking a person's chemical complex

Question 18

Why doesn't Montag have any children?

Accepted Answer

Mildred didn't want any

Question 19

Montag compares his bedroom to a ___________

Accepted Answer

tomb

Question 20

Figurative Language: The orange dragon coughed to life.

Accepted Answer

Personification, Metaphor

Question 21

Montag compares kerosene to ____________

Accepted Answer

Perfume

Question 22

How did the fireman in Seattle kill himself?

Accepted Answer

He set the Mechanical Hound to his own chemicals

Question 23

How do TV produces make their viewers think "something" has happened on the TV programs?

Accepted Answer

By giving them a concussion with sound

Question 24

Why was Clarisse's uncle once arrested?

Accepted Answer

For driving 40 m.p.h. on the highway

Question 25

Why does Clarisse make Montag uneasy at first?

Accepted Answer

She thinks too many things

Question 26

Who said it? If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him 2 sides to a question.

Accepted Answer

Captain Beatty

Question 27

What does Montag discover about his wife when he arrives home?

Accepted Answer

She's overdosed on sleeping pills

Question 28

How do the firemen stave off boredom?

Accepted Answer

Watching the Mechanical Hound hunt animals

Question 29

Who visits Montag when he's sick?

Accepted Answer

Captain Beatty

Question 30

When Montag is sick in the morning, Mildred _________

Accepted Answer

Wants him to leave for work

Question 31

What is the Hound's reaction to Montag?

Accepted Answer

It growls

Question 32

How many books did Montag have hidden in the grille?

Accepted Answer

20

Question 33

Who betrays the old woman to the authorities?

Accepted Answer

her neighbor

Question 34

Who does Clarisse quote most often?

Accepted Answer

her uncle

Question 35

What is announced on the radio?

Accepted Answer

War is declared

Question 36

Figurative Language: Two moonstones looked up at him in the dark room.

Accepted Answer

Personification, Metaphor

Question 37

Clarisse's uncle said the youth of today were missing ___________________

Accepted Answer

responsibility

Question 38

Who said it? What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything! The Captain was right!.

Accepted Answer

Mildred

Question 39

What does Mildred listen to all day?

Accepted Answer

Seashell radios

Question 40

Mildred tells Montag that Clarisse _____

Accepted Answer

Has died

Question 41

Beatty refers to the old woman's books as _________

Accepted Answer

the Tower of Babel

Question 42

According to the Fireman's Rule Book, who was the first fireman?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 43

Mildred's idea of "fun" is _____________

Accepted Answer

speaking script lines to the television

Question 44

Clarisse told Montag that there were no ___________ and _________ anymore.

Accepted Answer

front porches/rocking chairs

Question 45

Who said, "Are you happy?"

Accepted Answer

Clarisse

Question 46

Why didn't Montag understand why people would "suffer death" rather than "break eggs" wrong?

Accepted Answer

He started in the middle of the book

Question 47

Which line best describes how Montag feels about his job?

Accepted Answer

It was a pleasure to burn

Question 48

Figurative Language: Her dress whispered.

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 49

Figurative Language:"The Hound was like some great bee, come home from [a poisoned field]"

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 50

What prompted Montag to realize he didn't love Mildred?

Accepted Answer

Clarisse held a dandilion under his chin

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