F451 Practice #7

The syntax of the fourth paragraph (beginning "The subway fled")

• echoes the syntax of the paragraph which precedes it

• mirrors Montag's thoughts

• is unsettlingly repetitive

• reflects what Montag sees from the subway

• is meant ot mimic the rhythm of a train on the tracks

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The two paragraphs which begin "Once as a child" and "Now as the vacuum-underground" are related in that

• the first paragraph begins a story which is completed in the second

• the first paragraph presents a digression which is used figuratively in the second

• the ideas in the first paragraph are contradicted in the second paragraph

• the second paragraph provides elaboration on the story in the first paragraph

• the second paragraph reveals that the anecdote of the first paragraph was merely an illustration

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The Denham's Dentrifice refrain serves to

I. advertise a product

II. lull the passengers into passivity

III. interfere with substantial thought

• I only

• II only

• I and II only

• I and III only

• I, II, and III

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

The air train is presented as negative through images of all of the following EXCEPT

• evil

• famine

• descent

• violence

• illness

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Faber's attitude toward his society's use of religion could best be described as

• ambivalent

• perplexed

• derisive

• incredulous

• objectiv

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In the last two paragraphs, the primary distinction Faber makes is between

• the medium and its content

• "parlor families" and old motion pictures

• good books and bad books

• romanticism and realism

• old media and contemporary media

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

With which of the following statements would Faber NOT agree?

• Those who do not try to stop evil are themselves guilty of evil

• Books are one way of understanding the world

• A person who is not religious can nevertheless recognize religious folly

• Even a bad book is more valuable than anything television can provide

• intuition can, at times, be a valuable thing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3