Fahrenheit 451

Why did Ray Bradbury name the title of his novel Fahrenheit 451?

• It is an alarm code that firemen use to report to a fire.

• When you add the three digits up, they equal 10, representing a perfect society.

• It is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.

• All of the above are true.

What is the situation when Mildred is first introduced in the novel?

• She is watching television and does not pay attention to Montag.

• She has taken sleeping tablets.

• She is reading a book.

• She is making dinner and is happy to see Montag come home from work.

What does Clarisse teach Montag to do?

• jump rope

• dance

• pick wild flowers

• taste the rain

What is ironic about Clarisse being so friendly with Montag?

• She likes adults more than she likes her peers.

• At school she is considered to be antisocial.

• She has a family that likes to talk.

• On Sundays, she goes to church.

What happened with the old woman who owned all of the books in the ancient part of the city?

• She committed suicide by striking a kitchen match inside her kerosene soaked house.

• She was pulled, kicking and screaming, out of the house by Montag before the firemen torched the house.

• She convinced Captain Beatty to give her a break because of her age, so he told the firemen to go back to the station house.

• She was a spectacle in front of her neighbors as she threw her books onto the lawn for burning.

When Captain Beatty went to Montag;s home to find out why Montag was not at work, what kind of car was Captain Beatty driving?

• a salamander car

• an orange-black snake car

• a charcoal hyper-speed car

• a phoenix car

What rituals does this society observe upon a person’s death?

• There is an elaborate funeral that makes the deceased out to be bigger and better than in reality.

• The deceased is buried in large acre-sized plots with others and no headstones are allowed.

• The deceased is taken by helicopter to be incinerated.

• There is a “15-minute holiday” to remember the deceased, and then all material possessions of the deceased are burned within 24 hours.

What did Montag hide behind the grille of the air-conditioning system that caused his wife to panic?

• Clarisse’s hair pins

• About twenty books

• A gun

• A small, portable fire hose

Why is Montag upset that bombers are always flying above his house?

• He can’t hear the television when they fly past even though his wife has no problem because she wears the Seashell Radio.

• He believes he will be drafted if war breaks out for the fifth time since the 1970s.

• He can’t believe people don’t care about the possibility of war even though there have been two atomic wars since 1990.

• He says it’s foolish for the military to use bombers when other nations are using satellite bombers from space.

After riding the vacuum-underground to get to Faber's house, what does Montag show him?

• the Bible

• a yellowed Webster dictionary

• a torn and tattered copy of Shakespeare's The Tempest

• Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which is in mint condition