WorksheetsFahrenheit 451 Final Test
Total questions: 76
Worksheet time: 1hrs 17mins
Snake
What two events make Montag realize that he needs to change his life?
Clarisse moves away and a woman refuses to give up her books
Who turned Montag in for possessing books?
Mildred
Faber
Beatty
Clarisse
Which two characters are eliminated with a flame thrower by Montag?
Clarisse and Mildred
Faber and Beatty
Mechanical Hound and Mildred
Beatty and Mechanical Hound
The Mechanical Hound injects Montag in the....
leg
neck
abdomen
arm
Why does Montag stop by Faber's house while he is on the run from the new Mechanical Hound?
To get a drink of water.
To hide for the next 2 years.
To give him money for the printer.
To watch the big game.
Where does Faber suggest that Montag go to avoid being captured?
Back to his house to hide.
The country to hide with other outcasts.
To Clarisse's abandoned home to hide.
Downtown in the city to hide.
While on the run from the second Mechanical Hound, how does Montag manage to eliminate his scent?
He sprays a lot of cologne on his clothes.
He rolls around in the mud to cover his scent.
He wears Beatty's clothes to trick the hound.
He jumps in the river to let it carry him and his scent away.
What does Montag do right before jumping in the river to escape the Mechanical Hound?
He prays for forgiveness.
He calls Mildred to tell her he is sorry.
He reads one last book before burning it to ashes.
He puts on Faber's clothes to cover up his own scent.
Who is the leader of the group that Montag meets in the woods?
Clarisse
Faber
Beatty
Granger
Why do Granger and his group not get into trouble with the law?
They don't possess books. They only memorize them.
They are too good at hiding. They are never caught.
They beat up all of the authorities that come into their camp.
Montag's city is bombed at the end of the novel.
True
False
According to mythology, what is the salamander’s relation to fire?
It lives in it.
It hates it.
It eats it.
It is delicious roasted in it.
Clarisse’s family is different from other families because they
Talk to one another
Watch TV all day
Live in separate houses
Do not own a car
What question from Clarisse troubles Montag the most?
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?
Does the smell of kerosene bother you?
Why don’t you have a dog?
Are you happy?
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
What does Clarisse say has happened to all of her friends?
They all think she’s too rude to be her friend
They have all gone off to college
They have all been shot or killed in car wrecks
They left her because she is anti-social
Which of the following reasons is not one Beatty gives for burning books?
None of the books agreed with each other
it is the law
The people in the books never lived
Books are environmentally wasteful
During the manhunt for Montag, 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 Montag malfunctioned and identified the wrong man
Nobody really knew that 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
How were these men, the hobos, preserving literature?
They had built a secret fireproof library underground and quietly collecting 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.
Each man had memorized a piece of literature to be written down at a later time
What is Faber's one regret?
Not hiding more copies of the Bible when he could
Not trying to recruit more people to start a revolution in society
Not planting books in the firemen's houses before
Not speaking up when he could have safely done so
Who is Montag most scared to face now that he is seeking knowledge?
Beatty
Mildred
Clarisse
Faber
Where are the firemen called to at the end of part 2?
Beatty's house
Clarisse's house
Montag's house
Faber's house
What idea does Faber accidentally give Montag?
To work hidden messages into tv shows and radio advertisements
To plant books in the firemen's houses and call in alarms on them
To start printing more books so that people can begin reading again
To start reading books whenever possible to whoever will listen
Why does Montag read a poem to Mildred and her friends
Because he feels like they could benefit by learning what he knows
Because he realizes that they don't know any better and he wants to teach them to be better mothers and wives
Because he is so tired of hearing the tv and wants a change for the evening
Because he is just so upset by their ignorance that he wants to scare them into 'waking up'
What major event is about to start (they keep hearing signs overhead)?
The next war
The volcanic eruption
The great flood
The big avalanche
Why does Montag seek out Faber?
He wants Faber to teach him to understand books and to think for himself
He knows that Faber has books and he wants to take them for himself
He knows that Faber has books and he is trying to be a responsible fireman by arresting him
He wants to give Faber the last copy of the Bible so that it may be preserved for future generations
What are television shows like in this society (think of the one Mildred and her friends watch)?
Very high drama, lots of suspense and violence, riveting story lines
Lots of color, noise, and violence but no plot or substance to them
Very funny because the goal in society is to make everyone laugh
Calm and soothing because people want to relax and enjoy their leisure time
What does the following quote reveal about Mildred's friend, Mrs. Phelps?
"Anyway, Pete and I always said, no tears, nothing like that. It's our third marriage each and we're independent. Be independent, we always said. He said, if I get killed off, you just go right ahead and don't cry, but get married again, and don't think of me."
She's a free spirit.
She does not care about other people.
She has a great marriage.
She is a very emotional person.
A comparison without using "like" or "as" in the statement.
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Simile
Idiom
What do the sieve and sand metaphorically represent?
The sand represents Montag's happiness and the sieve represents his childhood.
The sand represents sand and the sieve represents a sieve
The sand represents Clarisse and the sieve represents Captain Beatty.
The sand represents the words in the book and the sieve represents Montag's mind.
What do books represent in this plot?
Past freedom, open minds, and opened eyes
Being extremely smart, intelligent, and bright
The ability to read
Being really strong physically and being able to life the heaviest weights (Physically and emotionally)
"He wore his happiness like a mask"
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
"She made the empty rooms roar with accusation.."
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
"...and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about"
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
"Always before it had been like snuffing a candle."
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
"His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief"
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
"' Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall by this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out'"
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
"Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound"
metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
2. A great guzzling gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall.
Simile
Idiom
Personification
Analogy
11. Another year ticked by in a single hour.
Analogy
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Idiom
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Simile
Her dress was white and it whispered.
analogy
metaphor
personification
simile
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.
simile
analogy
personification
metaphor
Who is the author of Fahrenheit 451?
Ray Bradbury
Ron Burgundy
Stephen King
W. W. Jacobs
Fahrenheit 451 is considered what sub-genre of literature?
Dystopian/Sci-fi/Fantasy
Utopian/Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Nonfiction/Biography
Mystery/Drama
We are all sheep.
Metaphor
Simile
Idiom
Analogy
The book has pores
Analogy
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
What does the salamander symbolize?
Symbolizes rebellion and chaos
Symbolizes fire and death
represents immortality, rebirth, passion, and the ability to withstand flames.
symbolizes social order and authority
What book in the Bible does Montag carry in his memory by the end of the novel?
Book of Job
Book of Ecclesiastes
Book of Exodus
Book of Genesis
What is the climax of Fahrenheit 451?
When Beatty discovers Faber's earpiece on Montag
When Montag begins to read books
When the mechanical hound injects Montag's leg
When Beatty orders Montag to burn down his own house
This event in a plot is the "point of no return" or when life will never go back to "normal".
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Resolution
a conflict is introduced, action picks up
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution
"And they lived happily ever after" is an example of
resolution
falling action
climax
rising action
this is an example of
setting
falling action
denouement or resolution
climax
