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.

What did Montag believe had been done to the animal?

It had been programmed to act against Montag.

What did Montag believe had been done to the animal?

It had been programmed to do tricks.

It had been programmed to attack the elderly.

Clarisse was part of the old society where talking and thinking were appreciated. How was this viewed by the others?

She was considered anti-social.

She was tolerated with amusement.

Where did Clarisse get most of her information about the way life used to be?

She learned it in history class.

She had secretly read her grandmother's diaries.

Who was Captain Beatty?

He was a retired naval officer. He often told old sea stories.

How did the firemen know which houses had books?

Neighbors, family members, and friends became informants and telephoned the authorities.

The books all had bar codes on the back covers. These could be read for up to one mile away by a special computerized track.

They conducted random searches.

The fire dogs could sniff them out.

What lie did Captain Beatty tell Montag?

He told Montag that firemen had never been used to prevent fires, only to start them.

He told Montag that authors had never been appreciated; indeed, they had always been regarded as outcasts.

He told Montag that women were too delicate to be workers.

He told Montag that he (Montag) was next in line for a promotion at work.

What did Montag do in the old lady's house?

He destroyed all of her old family pictures.

The firemen wanted to provide as much of a show as possible. How did they do this?

They had the fires at night when the visuals of the fires were the most intense.

They made watching mandatory for everyone over the age of twelve.

They advertised by having volunteers call people to remind them to come.

They had a famous person start the blaze.

What did the old woman do?

She lit the match and then committed suicide.

She locked herself in her apartment and refused to watch.

She danced and threw more books on the blaze.

She dressed in black, knelt before the fire, and prayed and cried.

What happened to Clarisse?

She was hypnotized and forced to change her thinking.

She was attacked by a pack of mechanical hounds.

She escaped to the wilderness and joined the rebels.

What was Montag afraid would happen when the Captain came to visit?

He was afraid the Captain would find the book he had stolen from the old lady.

He was afraid the Captain would eat all of his (Montag's) food rations for the whole week.

He was afraid the Captain would see how well he (Montag) was living, and reduce his pay.

He was afraid the Captain would stay for a long visit. Montag was shy, and was very nervous about having guests.

What did Captain Beatty believe?

He believed that books put upsetting thoughts in people's minds and kept them from being happy and satisfied.

He believed that all people should be masters of their own destinies.

He believed that firemen should be the highest paid workers because they were doing the most important job in society.

He believed that the world was about to end because of all of the greed and corruption. He also believed that he could save it if enough people would follow him.

What did Montag do after the captain had left the house?

He showed Mildred the books he had been stealing and hiding.

He disinfected everything the captain had touched.

He was a retired English professor.

He was Montag's brother-in-law, and another sympathizer.

He was second in command after Beatty.

He was the chief physician at Emergency Hospital.

Faber felt that three elements were missing from life. Which of these was NOT one of the elements?

The satisfaction of choosing one's own job.

Quality and texture of information

The right to carry out actions based on the other two items

What plan did Montag and Faber devise?

They were going to plant books in firemen's houses. and turn in alarms on the firemen. This was to cast suspicion on all firemen.

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. It would destroy their killer instincts.

They were going to bury as many books as they could find in an old root cellar on Faber's property.

What had Faber designed that allowed him to be in constant contact with Montag?

He had designed an electronic radio transmitter which could be placed in the ear.

He had designed a TV monitor that could be placed in a watch mechanism.

He had installed a thought-wave amplifier in each of their brains.

He had invented a liquid that could be traced by monitoring it's position emissions.

Why did Faber decide to go to St. Louis?

He wanted to enlist the help of an unemployed printer to begin making copies of books.

He wanted to get away from Montag for a while.

He wanted to raise funds for their project.

He needed electronic parts and St. Louis was the only place to buy them.

Why did Montag burn the book of poetry in the wall incinerator in his home?

He had been told to do so by Faber, through the transmitter, to show the ladies he was playing a joke on them.

He was desperate enough to do anything to save his relationship with his wife.

He didn't like the poems. He though they weren't worth saving.

He was addicted to the feelings of pain/pleasure that he got from burning books.

Where did Montag hide his books after the ladies left?

He hid them in his attic, above the heat/air conditioning vent.

He hid them behind a false wall he had previously built in his apartment for such a time.

What was the destination of the alarm on the night Montag returned to work at the firehouse?

The destination was Montag's home.

The destination was the town library.

The destination was the hospital. A few of the doctors were giving books to the patients.

Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty?

Beatty was aware that Montag was wearing a radio transmitter, and he was determined to find out who was on the other end.

Montag was insane because he saw his books burning.

It was an accident, Montag's finger slipped on the safety catch on the flame thrower, and Beatty got in the way.

He wanted to stop the firemen from burning more books.

Why didn't Montag run away before he killed Captain Beatty?

He knew that the mechanical hound was in the neighborhood and would kill him.

He wanted to stay and watch his house and books burn totally into ashes.

Faber told him to stay where he was.

He wanted to make sure Mildred was safe.

Where did Montag go after he killed Beatty?

He went for a long, fast ride in his beetle.

When Montag left Faber's house, which direction did he go?

He headed across the state to the mountains.

Why did Montag take whiskey, a suitcase, and some of Faber's dirty clothes with him?

He needed some strong-smelling things to throw the dogs off his scent.

He wanted to disguise himself as a drunken bum so he could pass through the city.

He wanted to leave them at a deserted shack to make his pursuers think he was in one location while he went the opposite direction.

He was headed into the wilderness. He took the whiskey in case he needed it for pain; the dirty clothes to wear, and the suitcase to collect any books he might find along the way.

Montag identified something he saw in his travels as a path to safety. What was it?

It was the lights from the airport runway.

What was different about the fire Montag saw after leaving the river?

It was giving warmth and comfort, not destroying things.

It was a different color because it was fueled by natural wood instead of chemicals.

It was considerably cooler than the fires that the firemen ignited.

It was only giving off low flames. Those started by the firemen usually leaped hundreds of feet into the air.

During the manhunt for Montag by the hound, why did the camera identify an innocent man as Montag?

The firemen needed to look good, and put a neat ending on the day's work.

Faber deliberately misled them to get them off of Montag's trail.

The computer that was tracking him malfunctioned and identified the wrong man.

Nobody really knew what he looked like, so they didn't know whom to chase.

How did the hobos preserve literature?

Each man had memorized a piece of literature to be written down at a later time.

They had built a secret fireproof library underground and quietly collected books.

Each carried a backpack full of books. It was his duty to safeguard them.

They were burying books in holes along the railroad tracks. They had developed a secret marking system so they knew where the books were.

What happened during the war?

The city and its inhabitants were destroyed.

The city was damaged, but not seriously.

They were victorious and destroyed the other cities.

Both sides called a truce, and together pursued the destruction of all books.

What did Montag and the intellectuals believe their mission to be once the war was ended?

They wanted to learn from previous mistakes and always to remember.

They wanted to convert any survivors to their way of thinking.

They wanted to teach everyone how to read.

They wanted to pursue and kill any remaining firemen so they couldn't start burning books again.

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Authored by Brian McClernand

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30 sec • 5 pts

Who is Guy Montag?

He is a librarian.

He is a fireman.

He is the mayor.

He is a doctor.

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30 sec • 5 pts

Describe his job.

He is a curator in a museum.

He maintains information files for the city.

He teaches school.

He finds books and burns them.

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30 sec • 5 pts

Describe Clarisse McClellan.

She is shy and slightly handicapped.

She is a young girl who likes to think and talk.

She is extremely rigid and law-abiding.

She is a flirt whose only concern is getting men to like her.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What smelled like perfume to Montag?

It was the printers ink on the books.

It was the cooking fumes from the restaurant.

It was the kerosene.

It was the smoke from the fireplace.

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30 sec • 5 pts

Who is Mildred?

She is Clarisse's mother.

She is Montag's wife.

She is a doctor at Emergency Hospital.

She is a writer who has gone underground.

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What happened to Mildred at the beginning of the book?

She was captured and sent to a prison camp.

She contracted a fatal, contagious disease and had to be quarantined.

She took an overdose of sleeping pills and had to have her stomach and blood pumped clean.

She had just been promoted to a position of power in the government.

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Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat the patient?

The patient didn't have enough insurance coverage to merit a doctor's care.

Doctors only treated men.

There weren't enough doctors, so none ever left the hospital.

That kind of medical procedure was so common that technician-operated machines had been developed to

treat the patient.

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Fahrenheit 451 Review

Who is Guy Montag?

Describe his job.

Describe Clarisse McClellan.

What smelled like perfume to Montag?

Who is Mildred?

What happened to Mildred at the beginning of the book?

Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat the patient?

What were the parlor walls?

There was a robotic animal equipped with a steel needle, and programmed to hunt and kill.What kind of animal was it?

What did Montag believe had been done to the animal?

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