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Fahrenheit 451- Part 1 Quiz

Last updated 10 months ago
25 questions
4

Match each character with the appropriate description

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
Clarisse
The protagonist; he is a fireman who has a crisis of conscience over whether books are bad or not
Montag
The protagonist's wife; she is unaware of how unhappy she is with her life and oblivious to her own suicide attempt
Mildred
A teenage girl who enjoys thinking, talking, and nature; she influences the protagonist to begin the see their world differently
Beatty
The fire captain and main antagonist of the novel
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What does Clarisse ask Montag that gets him to question everything?

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What is written on the firemen's helmets?

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What does Mildred want that Montag claims they cannot afford?

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What did Mildred fail to remember about the night before?

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What do the two machines that are being used on Montag's wife do?

1

Explain a school day in the world of Fahrenheit 451.

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What does Montag say he always smells like?

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What happens to people that try to fool the government?

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What do the firemen do on dull nights?

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What do the firemen do in the world of Fahrenheit 451?

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What are the two professional symbols that Montag wears?

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What happens when Montag touches the muzzle of the Mechanical Hound?

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According to Clarisse, how is Montag "not like the others"?

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Who comes to visit Montag?

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According to captain Beatty, if you don't want a man unhappy politically, what do you do?

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What does Mildred find behind Montag's pillow?

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About how many books had Montag hidden in the ventilator?

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"Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. [...] the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle."

What's one word that can summarize this description of Clairesse?

1

What shocks Montag about the call to the woman's house?

The following section is short answer. Write in complete, well punctuated sentences.
Read the following excerpt from pages 17- 18 in Fahrenheit 451.
She didn’t look up from the script again. “Well, this is a play comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes. They mailed me my part this morning. I sent in some box tops. They write the script with one part missing. It’s a new idea.
The homemaker, that’s me, is the missing part. When it comes time for the missing lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the lines. Here, for instance, the man says, ‘What do you think of this whole idea, Helen?’ And he looks at me sitting here center stage, see? And I say, I say—” She paused and ran her finger under a line on the script. “ ‘I think that’s fine!’ And then they go on
with the play until he says, ‘Do you agree to that, Helen?’ and I say, ‘I sure do!’ Isn’t that fun, Guy?”
He stood in the hall looking at her.
“It’s sure fun,” she said.
“What’s the play about?”
“I just told you. There are these people named Bob and Ruth and Helen.”
“Oh.”
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Who, or what, is Bradbury satirizing in the excerpt?

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According to Beatty, the government did not mandate that books be burned. What happened instead?

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Why doesn't Mildred care that Montag burned a woman alive?

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Choose one statement that summarizes the main idea behind part 1. Explain how the idea is shown in the novel, and how it is relevant to you.

A. Censorship corrupts and controls society.
B. Humans have a responsibility to share and seek knowledge.
C. Have courage and fight oppression.

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Draw what you think is the most memorable moment from part 1 of Faherenheit 451.