Fahrenheit 451 - Part I: "The Hearth and the Salamander" 1/2

Who is Guy Montag?

• He is a librarian.

• He is the mayor.

• He is a doctor.

• He is a fireman.

Describe Montag's job.

• He maintains information files for the city.

• He teaches school.

• He finds books and burns them.

• He is a curator in a museum.

Describe Clarisse McClellan.

• She is shy and slightly handicapped.

• She is a young girl who likes to think and talk.

• She is extremely rigid and law-abiding.

• She is a flirt whose only concern is getting men to like her.

What smelled like perfume to Montag?

• It was the printers ink on the books.

• It was the cooking fumes from the restaurant.

• It was the kerosene.

• It was the smoke from the fireplace.

Clarisse asked Montag a question. His reply was, "No." What was the question?

• Was he happy?

• Could he read?

• Did he ever want to get married?

• Had he ever committed a crime?

Who is Mildred?

• She is Clarisse's mother.

• She is Montag's wife.

• She is a doctor at Emergency Hospital.

• She is a writer who has gone underground.

What happened to Mildred?

• She was captured and sent to a prison camp.

• She contracted a fatal, contagious disease and had to be quarantined.

• She took an overdose of sleeping pills and had to have her stomach and blood pumped clean.

• She had just been promoted to a position of power in the government.

Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat the patient?

• The patient didn't have enough insurance coverage to merit a doctor's care.

• Doctors only treat women.

• There weren't enough doctors, so none ever left the hospital.

• That kind of medical procedure was so common that technician-operated machines had been developed to treat the patient.

What were parlor walls?

• They were a kind of surround television with which the audience could interact.

• They were portable partitions that could be repositioned to create a variety of living spaces.

• They were hidden microphones that could monitor conversations.

• They were barricades that separated one neighborhood from another.

There was a robotic animal equipped with a steel needle, and programmed to hunt and kill. What kind of animal was it?

• Dragon

• Hound

• Lion

• Rattlesnake