Fahrenheit 451 vocabulary quiz pages 1-20

1. He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated _________ in the earth.

• venomous

• symbolic

• minstrel

• flue

• merely

With his __________helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter.

• venomous

• symbolic

• minstrel

• flue

• merely

He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a ______ man, burnt-corked, in the mirror.

• venomous

• symbolic

• minstrel

• flue

• merely

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its ______ kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head.

• venomous

• symbolic

• minstrel

• flue

• merely

Or was the atmosphere compressed _________ by someone standing very quietly there, waiting?

• venomous

• symbolic

• minstrel

• flue

• merely

Her face, turned to him now, was __________ milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.

• tireless

• phoenix

• fragile

• flattering

• illumination

One time, as a child, in a power failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such _________ that space lost its vast dimensions.

• tireless

• phoenix

• fragile

• flattering

• illumination

But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello, and then when she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the ___________ on his chest, he spoke again.

• tireless

• phoenix

• fragile

• flattering

• illumination

But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently _________ light of the candle...

• tireless

• phoenix

• fragile

• flattering

• illumination

Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with ______ curiosity.

• tireless

• phoenix

• fragile

• flattering

• illumination