"Burning Bright"

Pick the best word for this sentence: "The man's ______ speech made little sense to the people in the audience.

• aesthetic

• incomprehensible

• gibbering

• plummeting

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What book did Montag have partly memorized?

• Dover Beach

• Plato's Republic

• Book of Ecclesiastes

• Matthew

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who said, "'Go ahead now, you second-hand literateur, pull the trigger.'"

• Montag

• Blackman

• Mildred

• Beatty

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which word best fits in this sentence: "He's usually such a _____ for exact vocabulary when writing a research paper."

• juggernaut

• pedant

• luminous

• gout

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What did Beatty say to Montag when he had finished burning down his and Mildred's house?

• "It's good that you finished the job."

• "You're under arrest."

• "Now, the hound will get you."

• "How does he feel to burn your own house down?

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which word best fits the sentence: "To many plant lovers, the ______ view of a rose is priceless.

• luminous

• perpetual

• phosphorescent

• aesthetic

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Which word best fits this sentence: "These fishes, however, are _______, and thus furnish their own light.

• luminous

• phosphorescent

• aesthetic

• juggernaut

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What did Montag suddenly realize about Beatty?

• He hadn't read many books after all.

• He really was his friend.

• He wanted to die.

• He wasn't serious about Montag having to burn his house.

When Montag arrives at his house, what does Mildred do?

• She screamed at him and threw a book at him.

• She put her suitcase in the taxi and left.

• Nothing; she had already left by the time Montag got there.

• She told Beatty it was all Montag's fault there were books in the house.

What word best fits this sentence: "Since our football team has won state the past five years, our competitors view the team as a ________.

• trajectory

• juggernaut

• aesthetic

• pedants

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4