The Hearth and the Salamander

1. Who is Guy Montag?

• librarian
• mayor
• doctor
• fireman

2. Describe his job.

• He maintains information files for the city.
• He teaches school.
• He finds books and burns them.
• He is a curator in a museum.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Clarisse asked Montag a question. His reply was, "No." What was the question?

• Was he happy?
• Could he read?
• Did he ever want to get married?
• Had he ever committed a crime?

6. 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.

7. What happened to her?

• 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.

8. 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.

9. What were 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 barricade that separated one neighborhood from another.

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

• dragon
• dog
• lion
• rattlesnake