WorksheetsFahrenheit 451 - "Burning Bright"
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 14mins
Who was the final informant on Montag's home?
It was Faber.
It was Mildred.
It was Beatty.
It was Mrs. Phelps.
Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty?
Montag was insane because he saw his books burning.
It was an accident, Montag's finger slipped on the safety catch on the flame thrower, and Beatty got in the way.
Beatty was aware that Montag was wearing a radio transmitter, and he was determined to find out who was on the other end.
He wanted to stop the firemen from burning more books.
Why didn't Montag run away before he killed Captain Beatty?
He wanted to stay and watch his house and books burn totally into ashes.
Faber told him to stay where he was.
He wanted to make sure Mildred was safe.
He knew that the mechanical hound was in the neighborhood and would kill him.
Where did Montag go after he killed Beatty?
He went to the firehouse.
He went to Faber's house.
He went to Mildred's friend's house.
He went for a long, fast ride in his beetle.
When Montag left Faber's house, which direction did he go?
He headed back into the city.
He headed across the state to the mountains.
He headed for the river.
He headed for the spaceport.
Why did Montag take whiskey, a suitcase, and some of Faber's dirty clothes with him?
He needed some strong-smelling thing to throw the dogs off his scent.
He wanted to disguise himself as a drunken bum so he could pass through the city.
He wanted to leave them at a deserted shack to make his pursuers think he was in one location while he went the opposite direction.
He was headed into the wilderness. He took the whiskey in case he needed it for pain; the dirty clothes to wear, and the suitcase to collect any books he might find along the way.
Montag identified something he saw in his travels as a path to safety. What was it?
It was the North Star.
It was the lights from the airport runway.
It was the railroad tracks.
It was a series of road signs.
What was different about the fire Montag saw after leaving the river?
It was a different color because it was fueled by natural wood instead of chemicals.
It was giving warmth and comfort, not destroying things.
It was considerably cooler than the fires that the firemen ignited.
It was only giving off low flames. Those started by the firemen usually leaped hundreds of feet in the air.
During the manhunt for Montag by the hound, why did the camera identify an innocent man as Montag?
Faber deliberately misled them to get them off of Montag's trail.
The computer that was tracking him malfunctioned and identified the wrong man.
Nobody really knew what he looked like, so they didn't know whom to chase.
The firemen needed to look good, and put a neat ending on the day's work.
What was different about the hobos Montag met?
They were all disfigured from exposure to the unfiltered country air.
They were all former firemen.
They were all intellectuals.
They were clean and well-fed.
How were these men preserving literature?
They built a secret fireproof library underground and quietly collected books.
Each carried a backpack full of books. It was his duty to safeguard them.
They were burying books in holes along the railroad tracks. They had developed a secret marking system so they knew where the books were.
Each man had memorized a piece of literature to be written down at a later time.
What literature did Montag preserve?
War and Peace
Book and Ecclesiastes
Constitution of the United States
Shakespeare's Plays
Whaat happened during the war?
The city was damaged, but not seriously.
They were victorious and destroyed the other cities.
The city and its inhabitants were destroyed.
Both sides called a truce, and together pursued the destruction of all books.
What did Montag and the intellectuals believe their mission to be once the war ended?
They wanted to learn from previous mistakes and always to remember.
They wanted to convert any survivors to their way of thinking.
They wanted to teach everyone how to read.
They wanted to purse and kill any remaining firemen so they couldn't start burning books again.
