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Multiple-Choice Questions for Part 1 of Fahrenheit 451
Multiple-Choice Questions for Part 1 of Fahrenheit 451
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1
What is the Mechanical Hound?
c) A device that delivers news updates
d) A high-tech vacuum cleaner
a) A robotic dog that helps firemen track down book owners
b) A firehouse mascot
2
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
b) A rebellious book smuggler
a) Montag’s wife
c) A curious and free-spirited teenager
Montag's boss at the fire house
3
What quote does the old woman say before dying?
a) “Books are knowledge.”
b) “To be or not to be.”
"We shall this day light such a candle... I trust shall never be put out"
d) “Long live the revolution.”
4
What is the significance of Montag’s job as a fireman?
a) He puts out fires in houses
b) He starts fires to burn books
c) He investigates arson cases
d) He teaches fire safety
5
What does Montag reveal to Mildred at the end of Part 1?
c) That he knows where Clarisse and her family are hiding
c) That he killed Beatty
b) That he’s been hiding books
a) That he wants to leave his job
6
How does Mildred attempt suicide?
c) By turning on the oven gas
b) By jumping from a building
d) By slitting her wrists
a) By taking an overdose of sleeping pills
7
What does Beatty say about books when he visits Montag’s house?
b) They should be preserved for history’s sake
d) They were burned by choice, not force
a) They are full of useless and contradictory information
c) They are dangerous and should be read in secret
8
What happens when the firemen are called to an old woman’s house?
c) She begs them to spare some of the books
b) She refuses to leave and burns with her books
d) She secretly switches out the books for blank pages
a) She attacks them and escapes
9
How does Montag feel about his job at the beginning of the novel?
c) He hates it and wants to quit
a) He is proud and enjoys burning books
d) He is indifferent and just follows orders
b) He is uncertain and questioning his role
10
What is the official slogan of the firemen in
Fahrenheit 451
?
d) “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner”...
c) “Burn everything”
a) “Protect and Serve”
b) “Ignorance is Strength”
11
What happened to Clarisse?
d) She ran away to avoid being arrested
a) She was arrested for possessing books
c) She joined the underground book resistance
b) She was killed in a hit and run
12
What does Clarisse ask Montag that makes him start questioning his happiness?
b) “Have you ever read one of the books you burn?”
a) “Why do you burn books?”
d) “Do you think you’ll ever be a father?”
c) “Are you happy?”
13
What is unusual about the way Mildred interacts with the television?
a) She watches it in total silence
c) She hates watching TV
d) She uses it to learn about history
b) She believes the TV characters are her family
14
Why is Montag disturbed by the old woman’s death?
b) He realizes that books must be important if someone would die for them.
c) He recognizes her as his long-lost aunt
d) He is scared he will be caught reading
a) He feels guilty for killing her
15
What has Montag secretly taken from the old woman’s house?
c) A book
a) A hidden diary
d) a letter from Clarisse
b) a list of the names of other subversives
