Fahrenheit 451 Part I

Use the following excerpt where Mildred repeatedly denies taking the sleeping pills to make a determination about the decision Montag is provoked to do.

"I didn't do that." she said. "Never in a billion years."

"All right if you say so," he said.

• He gives in to her denial and stops trying to talk to her about it.

• He realizes that he was wrong and must have made a mistake.

• He realizes his wife is a liar and stops trusting her.

• He chooses to change the subject and stop talking about it because he is tired from being up all night.

What is the significance of the title Fahrenheit 451?

• It is the temperature at which kerosene burns

• It is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns.

• It is the temperature needed to start a fire

• It is the temperature limit the firemen can burn a house at

What was Ray Bradbury warning against when he wrote this novel?

• The extreme dangers of driving too fast

• Ben Frankiln creating a dystopian society

• Losing our connections with the world around us because of technology

What is the main conflict of Part 1?

• Beatty wants Montag to replace him as Captain when Beatty is promoted

• Clarisse is part of an underground movement that sells information and technology

• Montag is afraid of the Hound and thinks it is programmed to come after him

• Montag struggles against being a firefighter and continuing to burn books

On pages 3 - 5, Montag describes Clarisse with words like "bright as snow in the moonlight" and "pale surprise." Why does he describe her with words that are synonymous with white?

• Because he feels like he is evil and she isn't

• Because she does not understand how the world works

• Because she is pure and innocent

• Because she is a little girl.

Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat Mildred?

• 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.

• The procedure was so common that technician-operated machines had been developed to treat patients.

According to Mildred, what happened to Clarisse?

• She was hit by a car and died

• She was hypnotized and forced to change her thinking.

• She was attacked by a pack of mechanical hounds.

• She escaped to the wilderness and joined the rebels.

Why are Mildred's TV shows (in the Parlor) so hard for the reader to understand?

• Because they are actually about nothing

• Because they are very important works of art

• Because they are written above a 10th grade reading level.

• Because they are interesting

What does Montag suspect about why the Hound growled at him and reacted this way?

• He thinks that someone programmed it to dislike him because of what he’s hiding in the vent at home.

• He thinks someone programmed it to growl at him because they are suspicious of him talking to Clarisse.

• He thinks it is growling at him because the dog smells the books on his clothes.

• He suspects that someone knows about him talking to Clarisse.

What happens to people who try to fool the government?

• They are sent to jail.

• They are killed.

• They are taken to the asylum.

• I don’t know.