Fahrenheit 451 Review

When talking about books Faber says, "You can shut them and say, 'Hold on a minute.' You can play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor?" What is the significance of this quote?

• It shows that we can get quality information from TV if we chose to.

• It shows that God prefers books.

• It shows that books are a problem because people can manipulate quotes to say whatever they want.

• It shows that mediums like TV are a problem because they prevent people from having their own thoughts and ideas.

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When talking about their society's dislike of reading, Beatty tells Montag, "It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship to begin with, no!" Which statement best matches the idea in this quote?

• We must protect our freedoms by challenging laws that limit our freedoms.

• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them.

• Censorship is an evil thing that must be challenged at all times.

• Because of the efficiency of sharing information because of technology, it is nearly impossible for the government to control people today.

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Mildred tells Montag, "The keys to the beetle are on the night table...You get it up to ninety-five and you feel wonderful...You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs. Go take the beetle" (61). What is significant about this quote?

• It shows that in a society where people have no imagination, they are unable to feel empathy of other living creatures and society becomes more violent.

• It shows that driving can be a great stress relief when someone is feeling troubled about something.

• It shows that technology in their society is falling apart because the beetle is an old type of car and if that's what they have in their society, they have not progressed very far in technology.

• It shows that Mildred actually cares about Montag because she is trying to help him with his stress.

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Montag remembers, "Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea...trying to fill a sieve with sand...and the faster her poured, the faster it sifted through" (74). What is the best explanation for this quote?

• It shows a metaphor for the greed in their society which tries to have everything but can't hold on to anything.

• It shows a metaphor for what happens to a mind that does not know how to think and can't understand complex ideas.

• It shows how Montag was easily tricked by his cousin and is an example of the bullying in their society.

• It is ironic because sand falling through the holes of the sieve is exactly what one would expect to happen in this situation.

Montag sees the campfire in the wilderness and realizes, "He hadn't known fire could look this way. He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take. Even its smell was different" (139). What idea is best captured by this quote?

• This shows how fire represents destruction in the novel, burning books, houses, and ideas.

• This is similar to Beatty's idea when he says, "Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."

• Montag realizes that he can't escape fire because he has come all this way and there is still a fire here.

• Objects are not inherently good or evil, human choices about how to use things are what dictate the effect that those things have.

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Which quote best shows how Montag is changing as the novel progresses?

• "[It] slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated corner of the firehouse" (22).

• "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" (1).

• "He felt his body divide itself into hotness and coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding upon one another" (21).

• "When they finally set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then" (78).

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What idea is best captured in this quote? "And he shot a bolt at each of the three blank walls and the vacuum hissed out at him. The emptiness made an even emptier whistle, a senseless scream" (111).

• It shows how distracted people are by the spectacle of the firemen burning books.

• It suggests that the TV characters were alive in the viewers' minds after all because they screamed upon dying.

• It shows how hard Montag will now have to work to buy new walls in a new house.

• It shows the emptiness of the lives of the people in society who give all their attention to their parlor walls.

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Which of the following is NOT a problem that Capt. Beatty has with books.

• They often have contradictory ideas that cause unhappiness as one tries to figure out what to think.

• They always upset somebody who doesn't share the same opinion as the majority.

• The have mass, which means they place images and sounds right in front of people so they don't have to use their imagination.

• They take a long time to read and don't offer immediate gratification.

What is the best explanation for what the Phoenix represents?

• Like the salamander, it represents the destruction from the firemen which destroys ideas so people can be happy.

• It represents Montag and the book people because they survived the bomb and will rebuild society.

• It represents the hope that humanity will rebuilt after it destroyed itself.

• It represents good people like Clarisse who, even though they are gone, will live on in the memories of people like Montag.

What idea could be suggested by the following quote? "The other men helped, and Montag helped, and there, in the wilderness, the men all moved their hands, putting out the fire together" (147).

• It suggests that people must work together if they are going to save society from becoming like the one in the book.

• It suggests that Montag's skills as a fireman are still useful even now that he is out of the city.

• It suggests that we all need to move out of cities if we are going to save our society.

• It suggests that Montag is officially saying goodbye to Clarisse and Mildred.

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