Fahrenheit 451 Review

Montag's occupation is a:

• firefighter
• fireman
• policeman
• professor

All of the following describe Clarisse McClellan EXCEPT:

• 17 and insane
• an outcast
• afraid of kids her age
• Montag's love interest

Montag's first meeting Clarisse on his walk home from work one evening serves as the _____ of the novel.

• Exposition
• Inciting Incident
• Rising Action
• Climax

Beatty tells Montag, "At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders?" If a fireman gives into that temptation and takes a book, what is the protocol?

• He is arrested immediately.
• He is issued a warning.
• He is allowed to keep it for 24 hours.
• He is fired from his position.

"The sky over the house screamed" (13) is an example of:

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personificatoin

"He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow" (14) is an example of:

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Captain Beatty says, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.  Burn it. Breach man’s mind.  Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” (58). This extended metaphor implies that:

• Books help humans to expand their minds and reach their full potential.
• Without books, mankind is lost.
• Books influence people to engage in crime.
• Books do more harm than good; they give people ideas, which make them dangerous.

How do the firemen know which houses have books in them?

• The books all have bar codes on the back cover; these can be read for up to one mile
• They conduct random searches
• Neighbors, family members, and friends become informants and tell the authorities
• The Mechanical Hound is programmed to smell them out

According to Granger, the life-cycle of the mythical Phoenix is comparable to what?

• mankind
• the presidential election
• literature
• the fire company

"Hell!" The operator's cigarette moved on his lip. "We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had these special machines built..." (15). Who says this?

• Faber
• Beatty
• Granger
• Medic