Fahrenheit 451 | Reading Quiz | 2

According to the "brief histories of the Firemen of America" who was the first fireman?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Alexander Hamilton

What type of figurative language is "The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times."

• alliteration

• personification

• analogy

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the "orange dragon"?

• what they call the firetruck

• symbol of the fireman

• what they call the Mechanical Hound

• the firehose that spits kerosene instead of water

What kind of figurative language is, "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

• analogy

• allusion

• paradox

• oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

When an alarm is called in to report suspicion of books in a home, what is the first thing that happens to the victim? Explain why they do this.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Explain the significance of the following line, "They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies."

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What was so unique and different about this fire run?

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What did Montag, or Montag's hand, do at the fire?

The old woman held a (a)   in her hand.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

On the way back to the firehouse, what do Stoneman, Black, and Guy find so odd?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4