Fahrenheit 451 p. 29 - 60

What type of figurative language is the following: "They and their charcoal hair and soot-colored brows and bluish-ash-smeared cheeks..."

• Imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

At this point in the story Montag starts to question life. What event made him start to question life?

• burning the last house

• Meeting the old man in the park.

• Tasting the rain.

• Talking to Beatty

Why did the firemen question Montag use of "Once upon a time?"

• That is how average people talk.

• That is how some books begin.

• Nobody knows the meaning of the word once.

• Montag is too young to use those words.

When the fire alarm goes off, what do they firemen go do?

• They went to rescue the woman.

• The went to rescue the cat out of the tree.

• They went to burn the books at the woman's house.

• To recover the books the woman stole.

What did Montag steal?

• A lighter to start fires.

• A book.

• A device to help get the 4th TV screen.

• The Tower of Babel.

What happened to Clarisse?

• She went to college.

• She was arrested for lying to her doctor.

• She was ran over by a car.

• They are not really sure what happened to her.

In a paragraph SCR answer the following: What is the importance of the meaning behind Beatty's words "Any man's insane who thinks he can fool the government and us."