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Fahrenheit 451

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the leader of the book people?
a)
Granger
b)
Montag
c)
Beatty
d)
Clarisse
2.
Who is Montag's wife?
a)
Mildred
b)
Clarisse
c)
Mrs. Phelps
d)
Mrs. Bowles
3.
Who is the captain of the fire department?
a)
Beatty
b)
Faber
c)
Montag
d)
Granger
4.
Why does Faber consider himself a coward?
a)
Faber saw negative things happening in society and did nothing to change it.
b)
He is afraid of the mechanical hound
c)
He is afraid of fire
d)
He can't face Beatty himself
5.
What happens in Montag's final confrontation with Captain Beatty?
a)
Montag kills Beatty
b)
Beatty kills Montag
c)
Montag is arrested
d)
Montag goes to jail
6.
How does the manhunt for Montag end?
a)
The government captures an innocent man instead of Montag.
b)
Montag is killed by the government
c)
Montag surrenders
d)
Beatty shoots Montag
7.
Who are the men Montag meets in the woods?
a)
People who have memorized books that can be transcribed to save civilization
b)
War veterans
c)
Retired firemen
d)
Criminals who escaped from jail
8.

What literary device? "You think you can walk on water with your books."

a)

allusion

b)

metaphor

c)

symbol

d)

theme

9.
Who said this? "Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores."
a)
Faber
b)
Montag
c)
Beatty
d)
Granger
10.
Who said this? "My family is real; they talk to me!"
a)
Mildred
b)
Mrs. Phelps
c)
Clarisse
d)
Beatty
11.
Who said this? "We're book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid they'd be found."
a)
Granger
b)
Faber
c)
Montag
d)
Beatty
12.
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which ___________ burns?
a)
paper
b)
wood
c)
clothes
d)
buildings
13.
What is the significance of the sieve and the sand?
a)
It shows the slow passing of time in the world.
b)
It is a metaphor for Mildred's feelings toward Montag.
c)
It is a metaphor for knowledge  and Montag's want of it.
d)
It shows how powerful the words of books can be.
14.
What does Faber say about the physical books?
a)
They are not what is important; it is what is stated in books where the true power lies.
b)
Without the actual book binding itself, all the words in books are useless. 
c)
There is nothing important about books or what they have hidden within.
d)
Never judge a book by its cover.
15.
What is the first thing Faber mentions is missing from people's lives?
a)
Money.
b)
Quality information.
c)
A College Education.
d)
Books.
16.
What is the second thing Faber says people are missing in their lives?
a)
Examination.
b)
School.
c)
Leisure time.
d)
Protests.
17.
What is the third thing Faber states is missing?
a)
Freedom to pursue dreams.
b)
Freedom to move and travel around the world.
c)
Freedom to act without fear.
d)
Freedom of religion. 
18.
What book does Faber read to Montag?
a)
Fahrenheit 451
b)
Great Expectations 
c)
Romeo and Juliet 
d)
The Bible
19.
According to mythology, what is the salamander's relation to fire?
a)
it lives in it
b)
it eats it
c)
it hates it
d)
it is delicious when roasted at 451 degrees
20.

What does water symbolize in Fahrenheit 451?

a)

Montag’s rebirth

b)

Faber's fear

c)

Burning

d)

Beatty’s ideas

21.

A reference to something literary or historical from outside of the text

a)

Theme

b)

Allusion

c)

Symbols

d)

Fahrenheit

22.

What animal is referred to during the scene that the city is bombed and will rise again from the ashes?

a)

Phoenix

b)

Mechanical hound

c)

Dove

d)

Polar bear

23.

What book was Montag referring to when he said “...he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house..”

a)

The Chronicles of Narnia

b)

Dover Beach

c)

Alice in Wonderland

d)

The Bible

24.

What war ended when Bradbury wrote the book?

a)

The Vietnam War

b)

World War ll

c)

Civil War

d)

The Revolutionary War

25.

“‘Have you seen the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond? Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long?”


From this quote, what inferences can you make about the community?

a)

People drive more reckless and faster than they used to.

b)

It is a partially blind community.

c)

The billboards are far away from the road.

d)

None of the these

26.
Montag feels guilty for killing Beatty because he realizes that
a)
Beatty was a true friend.
b)
The government wanted Montag to kill Beatty.
c)
Mildred hated Beatty and set him up.
d)
Beatty wanted to die.
27.
What happens at the end of the novel?
a)
Montag escapes and meets up with Faber in St. Louis
b)
A bomb goes off and kills everyone in the city.  
c)
Montag finds Mildred and apologizes until she takes him back.
d)
Montag is found and killed.
28.

This description of books, "While the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house," is an example of ...

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

characterization

d)

allusion

29.
After her sleeping pill overdose, why did technicians treat Mildred instead of emergency room doctors?
a)
The Montag family could not afford doctors.
b)
There are no more doctors in this society
c)
Incidents like this are so common that society invented a machine to fix people
d)
Incidents like this are so rare that doctors cannot help
30.
What can be inferred about what Mrs. Bowles says about her children?
"I put up with them when they come home three days a month...You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch. It's just like washing clothes (96)." 
a)
Women in this society hate their children and so they ship them away
b)
Women in this society view child-rearing as a burden because they are busy with their own lives
c)
Women in this society prefer not to have kids because they have to wash their clothes
d)
Women in this society miss their children a lot when they are away at school

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