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WorksheetsFahrenheit 451 Part 1: The Hearth & The Salamander
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 1hrs 2mins
What is Guy Montag's job?
Librarian
Fireman
Police Officer
Politician
How does Montag feel about his job at the very beginning of the book?
Cautious and guilty
He hates his job
Enthusiastic and confident
Worried about his salary
How does Montag meet Clarisse McClellan
Walking home from work
He burns her house and books
She is a fireman too
His wife introduces him to Clarisse
What first happens to Montag as a result of meeting Clarisse?
He considers leaving Mildred
He decides he no longer wants to be a fireman
He becomes more dedicated to his job
He starts to question the way things are
Which character talks for a long time about what he or she knows about the history of fireman, technology, the dangers of books, and the way society works?
Captain Beatty
Montag
Clarisse
The old woman
Why does Montag despise the technology Mildred uses?
Mildred does not actually use much technology
It is very violent and he is afraid that it is corrupting her
She never lets him use the devices
It is mindless entertainment, and she is usually disconnected from reality
What realization does Montag have regarding his wife Mildred?
She is very understanding of what he is going through
She is far more intelligent than Clarisse
He doesn't really know her that well
He actually strongly dislikes her
What two major events occur that make Montag question everything?
A woman chooses to burn with her books and Clarisse disappears
Mildred betrays him and Clarisse is there to comfort him
A neighbor reports Clarisse's books and she kills herself
Montag gets burned in a fire and is permanently injured
Where does Clarisse get most of the information about how life used to be?
Reading books secretly
Her uncle
Her parents
History class
What is the MAIN reason people stopped reading books in the society of Fahrenheit 451?
They had more important things to do with their time
They did not like that books presented different ways of thinking
They would rather talk to each other
They did not stop reading books
What question haunts Montag because neither he nor his wife can remember the answer?
How many fires has Montag started?
How many children do Montag and Mildred have?
How many books has Montag hidden?
How did Montag and Mildred meet?
What are "seashells"?
Sleep lozenges
Interactive TV remotes to participate with television shows
Radio earbuds/airpods
Small shell-shaped devices that allow the government to monitor them
Clarisse describes herself as:
"insane"
"full of life"
"a know-it-all"
"bright as a dandelion"
What smells like perfume to Montag?
Smoke
Book ink
Cooking
Kerosene
What are the parlor walls?
Three, interactive TV screen walls
Three shelf walls full of books
Three walls with hideous wallpaper
Three normal parlor walls
Clarisse was part of the old society where talking and thinking were appreciated. How was this viewed by the others?
She was socially elite.
She was regarded as holy.
She was thought to be insane.
She was thought to be nosey.
"Montag felt himself back away and away out the door, after Beatty, down the steps, across the lawn, where the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail" is an example of
personification
Hyperbole
hyperbole
and alliteration
simile
metaphor
What happens when the fire team chops into an old woman's home and find her books?
They brutally beat her and then set her books ablaze.
She has a heart attack and dies.
The woman strikes a match on the kerosene-soaked pile of books and dies.
The firemen each take one of the books before setting them on fire.
After Beatty leaves his house, Montag _____ his books.
burns
reads
throws away
admires
What important question does Clarisse ask Montag at the beginning of the novel?
"Will you protect me?"
"Are you a criminal?"
"Are you happy?"
"How long can you keep doing this?"
