Fahrenheit 451 Nine Weeks Study Guide

What does water symbolize in Fahrenheit 451? (11.3.R.4)

• Montag’s rebirth

• Faber's fear

• Burning

• Beatty’s ideas

Based on this text what can you infer. “They walked in the warm, cool, blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air.” (11.3.R.6)

• Clarisse smelled nice.

• They walked past a strawberry field

• They had recently eaten strawberries and apricots

• The smell from Montag's recent burning

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How did Montag develop as a character? (11.2.R.1)

• Started liking books and as the story developed he began to dislike them

• Started as a fireman that didn't really think about anything that he did and as the story developed he started thinking for himself

• Was in love with Mildred at first but then became in love with Clarisse

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What kind of figurative language is this quote: ¨One of them slid down into your stomach like a black down an echoing well... " (11.2.R.1)

• Simile

• metaphor

• personification

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A reference to something literary or historical from outside of the text (11.3.R.1)

• Theme

• Allusion

• Symbols

• Fahrenheit

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What animal is referred to during the scene that the city is bombed and will rise again from the ashes? (11.3.R.1)

• Phoenix

• Mechanical hound

• Dove

• Polar bear

What book was Montag referring to when he said “...he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house..” (11.3.R.1)

• The Chronicles of Narnia

• Dover Beach

• Alice in Wonderland

• The Bible

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What war ended when Bradbury wrote the book? (11.3.R.1)

• Cold War

• World War ll

• Civil War

• World War lll

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What did Mildred spend most of her time doing? (11.2.R.1)

• Reading

• Sleeping

• Fighting with Montag

• Talking to her “family”

What does Bradbury allude to in this quote: “In Beatty’s sight Montag felt the guilt of his hands”? (11.3.R.1)

• Macbeth

• Alice in Wonderland

• Fahrenheit 451

• Phoenix

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