Fahrenheit 451 Section 1 Quiz

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 treated men.

• 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?

• It was a dragon.

• It was a hound.

• It was a lion.

• It was a rattlesnake.