Fahrenheit 451

Name the literary device: "the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange"

• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Personification
• Simile

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the main reason Beatty gives for all of the books being burned? 

• Books were the cause of all happiness.
• Books were not controversial enough.
• People want to be happy.
• People needed more firewood.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

How does Beatty react when Montag hints that he may have taken a book home?

• He tells Montag that he has stolen lots of books too.
• He throws Montag and Mildred in jail.
• He turns Montag in to the Mechanical Hound.
• He says it is a "natural error." 

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Why were porches and gardens removed? 

• They were creating an environmental hazard.
• They encouraged people to sit, think, and talk. 
• They looked too pretty.
• They were misunderstood.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

What does Montag show Mildred after Beatty leaves? 

• A collection of books hiding behind the ventilator. 
• His collection of rocking chairs. 
• A contract to leave Mildred. 
• A Mechanical Hound.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

What does Mildred say is her favorite subject to talk about? 

• Clarisse
• Her marrige with Montag
• Herself
• Politics

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who is Faber? 

• A retired English professor Montag seeks out for help.
• A retired firehouse Captain who ran away.
• Mildred's friend from the parlor.
• A man inside Montag's head.

As Montag takes the subway, what keeps interrupting his thoughts? 

• Mildred's voice nagging him to turn off the television.
• A Mechanical Hound sniffing near his book.
• Advertisements for dental detergent.
• An annoying woman who will not stop talking.

What book does Montag show Faber?

• Shakespeare's Hamlet
• The Bible
• Dante's Inferno
• Twilight

What does Faber say you find within books? 

• Magical unicorns and vampires.
• The answer to the question "why are we here?"
• True evil
• Quality, Pores, and Telling Details