The Hearth and the Salamander

These are the vocabulary words (numbers 7-22 in Quizlet) from the section.

Vocabulary Words from "The Hearth and the Salamander"

Multiple Choice

The scientist used a ______ to separate the plasma from the blood cells in her lab.

• Cacaphony

• Centrifuge

• Mausoleum

• Pratfall

Multiple Choice

While I appreciate the taste of spring water, ______ water tastes so clean and pure!

• Nomadic

• Tactile

• Distilled

• Ravenous

Multiple Choice

Geologists often study the _______ of the earth's surface to determine the ages of fossils and formations.

• Stratum

• Proboscis

• Luminescent

• Conjure

Multiple Choice

Slapstick humor, like the Three Stooges, relies on the audience finding humor in the performers' _______.

• Feigning

• Olfactories

• Gorging

• Pratfalls

Multiple Choice

The Mariana Trench, the deepest part in the ocean, is a dark ______ that seems bottomless.

• Proboscis

• Mausoleum

• Cacaphony

• Abyss

Multiple Choice

After being lost in the desert for days without food or water, the explorer had a ________ appetite.

• Ravenous

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Nomadic

Multiple Choice

The monkey on the left is famous for its giant nose or ________.

• Conjure

• Luminescent

• Proboscis

• Pratfall

Multiple Choice

Many Native American tribes in the plains were ________, never staying in one place for too long.

• Centrifuge

• Nomadic

• Olfactory

• Ravenous

Multiple Choice

Going into Bath & Body Works is so overwhelming for my ________ sense.

• Abyss

• Luminescent

• Gorging

• Olfactory

Multiple Choice

Angie didn't want to come to school and the only way she could get out of going was by _______ an illness.

• Feigning

• Prafall

• Stratum

• Tactile

Multiple Choice

Tiny fish that live in the darkest parts of the ocean can be bio-_______ which helps them to find food or as protection from larger fish.

• Abyss

• Luminescent

• Distilled

• Tactile

Multiple Choice

The 6th grade orchestra had many untuned violins and it made the musical numbers into ______; it was pure chaos!

• Cacophony

• Luminescent

• Stratum

• Tactile

Multiple Choice

My family has a _______ at the cemetery where all of my ancestors are buried together.

• Abyss

• Tactile

• Mausoleum

• Pratfall

Multiple Choice

I prefer to figure things out by hand because I am a _______ learner.

• Conjure

• Distilled

• Centrifuge

• Tactile

Multiple Choice

The witches huddled around the cauldron reciting a spell to _______ a youth potion

• Centrifuge

• Conjure

• Olfactory

• Pratfall

Multiple Choice

When I go to Golden Corral, you can usually find me ________ myself on yeast rolls with butter!

• Feigning

• Gorging

• Nomadic

• Mausoleum

The following are reading questions about this chapter.

Reading Questions from "The Hearth and the Salamander"

Multiple Choice

The Mechanical Hound is a paradox in many ways. What is one the descriptions used in the book that shows this?

• "It was sleeping the evil out."

• "It was like a great bee come home from some field..."

• "It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle..."

• "The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep..."

Multiple Choice

How does the mechanical hound find its target?

• It is programmed with "combinations" for its target

• It is typed into it using binary code

• Beatty tells the Hound who to target

• Nothing. It just attacks whatever it wants to attack.

Multiple Choice

Montag struggles with whether he should remain in his current life situation or if he should change everything. This is an example of a(n)...

• Dramatic Irony

• External Conflict (Man vs. Man)

• Internal Conflict (Man vs. Self)

• Paradox

Multiple Choice

Clarisse disappears without a trace. We later find out that she is dead from Mildred (4 days after the fact). How does Mildred say she died?

• They found books at her house, so they took her away and burned all of the books

• She was thrown from a vehicle during a race

• She fell off a roller coaster at a Fun Park

• She was hit by a car

Multiple Choice

Where did Montag and Mildred meet?

• They walked to and from the subway everyday

• At a Fun Park while playing "chicken"

• We never find out because neither of them remember

• In school, when they were both teenagers

Multiple Choice

What metaphor does Beatty use to describe a book?

• A book is the answer to all of the "whys"

• A book is a loaded gun

• A book is where fiction is alive

• A book is a pigeon-winged piece of freedom

Multiple Choice

When Montag takes the books out of the ventilator grill and shows them to Mildred, how does she react?

• She goes into the bathroom and takes all of her sleeping pills

• She runs after Beatty and tells him everything

• She picks up a book of poetry and begins to read it

• She backs away, screams, fights and cries