Fahrenheit 451 Part 1

1. Who is Guy Montag?

• He is a librarian.
• He is the mayor.
• He is a doctor.
• He is a fireman.

2. Describe his job.

• He maintains information files for the city.
• He teaches school.
• He finds books and burns them.
• He is a curator in a museum.

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3. Describe Clarisse McClellan.

• She is shy and keeps to herself.
• 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 to attracting men.

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4. 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.

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5. Clarisse asked Montag a question. After truly considering the answer, his reply was, "No." What was the question?

• Was he happy?
• Could he quit his job?
• Did he ever want to get married?
• Had he ever committed a crime.

6. How does Montag feel about his wife, Mildred?

• He is madly in love, and they get along very well.
• They are newlyweds and hate to be apart.
• They dislike each other but act like roommates.

• They are almost like strangers living in the same house.

7. What happened to Mildred?

• She was captured and being held in solitary confinement.
• 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.

8. 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 treated men.
• All the doctors were already on calls in other places.
• The kind of medical procedure was so common that technician-operated machines had been developed to treat the patients.

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9. What were the 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 life-like moving images of art on the wall. Their eyes would follow people in the house when they moved around.

10. 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