WorksheetsFahrenheit 451 Mid-Book Quiz Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
From which point-of-view is the novel written?
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person - Limited
3rd Person - Omniscient
What word is used to describe “a seemingly perfect society”?
Dystopia
Utopia
Zootopia
Mytopia
Montag’s job as a fireman means he…
Extinguishes fires for a living
Starts fires for a living
Fireproofs houses for a living
Counsels citizens on the harmful nature of books
According to the novel, what do the number 451 represent?
The number of firehouses in the country.
The number of books burned each year.
The number of days it took Bradbury to write the novel.
The temperature at which books burn.
What are the Seashells?
Small shell-shaped devices that allow the government to monitor them
Tiny transistor radio earbuds
Interactive remotes that allow the viewers to participate in the TV programming
Mini sleep lozenges that melt on the tongue
Why does Montag keep hearing planes flying overhead throughout the story?
The “planes” are surveillance aircraft sent to watch his house
The government routinely flies aircraft in order to remind the citizens of who is in charge
They aren’t really planes; Montag is hearing the sounds in his earbuds
The country is preparing for war, but nobody talks about it
Clarisse McClellan is a curious, thoughtful person. Which sentences from the text best support this inference?
“I’m seventeen and I’m crazy” (Bradbury 5).
“You know, I’m not afraid of you at all” (Bradbury 5).
“I rarely watch the ‘parlor’ walls or go to races or Fun Parks” (Bradbury 7).
“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds
and collect butterflies” (Bradbury 20).
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
Which statement from the novel best supports the inference that people rarely have meaningful conversations with one another in this society?
“What a strange meeting on a strange night. He remembered nothing like it save one afternoon a year ago when he had met an old man in the park and they had talked” (Bradbury 8).
“They walked the rest of the way in silence, hers thoughtful, his a kind of clenching uncomfortable silence in which he shot her accusing glances” (Bradbury 7).
“Montag got up quickly, his heart pumping, and ran down the hall and stopped at the kitchen door” (Bradbury 15).
“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and
there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (Bradbury 9).
In what ways did Clarisse influence Montag?
He begins to think about his relationship with Mildred.
He notices the world around him more.
He begins to question the practices of society.
All of the above
Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat the patient?
Mildred didn’t have enough insurance coverage to merit a doctor’s care.
Doctors only treated men.
There weren’t enough doctors, so they never left the hospital.
Overdoses were so common that technician-operated machines had been developed to treat
the patient.
What traits bother Montag about Mildred?
She is rude and angry.
She is quiet and polite.
She is like a stranger, and shallow.
She has ideas, and likes to talk about them.
What were the 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.
How did the firemen know which houses had books?
The books all had barcodes on the back covers. These could be read for up to one mile away by a special computerized track.
Neighbors, family members, and friends became informants and telephoned the authorities.
They conducted random searches.
The fire dogs could sniff them out.
What inference can you make about how the author, Ray Bradbury, feels about technology?
He thinks relying on it too much will ruin society.
He is a big fan and knows what new technologies will be invented in the future.
He doesn’t care about technology as long as people read books.
He wishes he had the technological inventions that are in the novel in real life.
Which sentence from the text best supports your answer to number 15?
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door” (Bradbury 56).
“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored” (Bradbury 44).
“We can’t burn these. I want to look at them, at least look at them once” (Bradbury 63).
“Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God” (Bradbury
55).
Why is Beatty himself a contradiction?
He let Montag have a book for 24 hours.
He believes books are worthless, yet he is a well read.
He lies about the origin of the firemen’s job.
He doesn’t own a television, yet praises how awesome the parlor walls are.
Which statement best summarizes the central idea of Part One of Fahrenheit 451?
Instead of putting out fires, firemen burn books.
Society has become a place where lives, knowledge, and thinking are not valued.
There are many suicide attempts in this society.
Guy Montag is unhappy with his marriage to Mildred.
When Mildred and Montag are reading all afternoon at the beginning of Part Two, they hear something at the door. Bradbury describes what they hear as “a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam” (Bradbury 77). Who or what is he implying is outside the door?
Captain Beatty
A fireman
The mechanical hound
The robot servant
Why is it ironic that Mildred sees no value in reading since “Books aren’t people”?
The books are more valuable than people
Her ‘family’ is not real people either, but she feels an artificial connection to them
The books can bring people together, forming connections
Mildred does not know how to read
Why is Montag unable to memorize parts of the Bible while on the subway?
He is too fearful to open the Bible long enough in front of so many onlookers
“Denham’s Dentrifice” and other such commercials are blaring, making it impossible to focus
He dropped the Bible on the way to the subway, so he has to remember it without help
He realizes his brain is incapable of such a large endeavor
Who is Faber?
An old, retired English Professor that Montag met in the park a year ago
A retired fireman who Beatty sends to Montag to reason with him
Clarisse’s uncle, who inspired and enlightened her
The author of the Bible that Montag has
What plan did Montag and Faber devise?
They were going to replace the kerosene with a non-flammable liquid.
They were going to develop a virus to implant in the mechanical hounds to destroy their killer instincts.
They were going to plant books in the firemen’s houses and turn in alarms on the fireman. This would cast suspicion on all firemen.
They were going to bury as many books as they could find in an old root cellar on Faber’s
property.
What was Montag willing to do to convince Faber to help carry out the plan?
He would pay Faber the money his wife wanted to use for the fourth parlor wall.
He would quit his job and move in with Faber.
He would destroy his book, page by page, until Faber would cooperate.
He would do the first five operations by himself so that Faber would not be implicated.
What had Faber designed that will allow him to be in constant contact with Montag?
He had designed a TV monitor that could be placed in a watch.
He had designed an electronic radio transmitter which could be placed in the ear.
He had installed a thought-wave amplifier in each of their braves.
He had invented a liquid that could be traced by monitoring its position emissions.
