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WorksheetsFahrenheit 451 - Part I: "The Hearth and the Salamander" 1/2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
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 treat women.
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?
Dragon
Hound
Lion
Rattlesnake
What did Montage believe had been done to the animal?
Programmed to beg for money.
Programmed to do tricks.
Programmed to attack the elderly.
Programmed to act against Montag.
Clarisse was part of the old society where talking and thinking were appreciated. How was this viewed by the others?
She was revered as a holy one.
She was thought to be insane.
She was considered anti-social.
She was tolerated with amusement.
Where did Clarisse get most of her information about the way life used to be?
Her uncle told her.
She watched old videos.
She learned it in history class.
She had secretly read her grandmother's diaries, which she had hidden in her room.
