Fahrenheit 451

As a firefighter, what does Guy Montag do?

• Extinguish fires
• Teach children fire safety
• Set fires and burn books
• Set fires to burn brush

This description of books, "While the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house," is an example of ...

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What inferences can the audience make about the society they live in when Clarisse says, "I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly?"

• The audience can infer that people do not go outside
• The audience can infer that flowers and grass do not exist
• The audience can infer that people do not drive
• The audience can infer that most people drive very quickly

Guy Montag, "wears his happiness like a mask," This simile means that...

• He is happy
• He appears to be happy all the time
• He is hiding his unhapiness
• His emotions change easily

According to Montag, what smells like perfume?

• Dandelions
• Igniters
• The Parlor-Walls
• Kerosene

After her sleeping pill overdose, why did technicians treat Mildred instead of emergency room doctors?

• The Montag family could not afford doctors.
• There are no more doctors in this society
• Incidents like this are so common that society invented a machine to fix people
• Incidents like this are so rare that doctors cannot help

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Montag describes his house as ...

• Lovely
• Entertaining
• Empty
• Sad

What does Montag think happened to the mechanical hound?

• It had been programmed to catch criminals
• It had been programmed to perform tricks
• It had been programmed to chase people
• It had been programmed to act aggressively toward Montag

What did the old lady do?

• She locked herself in her house with her books
• She helped the firemen burn her books
• She left willingly with the firemen
• She lit a match and committed suicide

What happened to Clarisse?

• She was hit by a car
• She moved
• She was institutionalized
• She ran away from home