Fahrenheit Quiz 4/7/21

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In the interview, which character does Bradbury say represents him?

1 point

Faber

Montag

Clarisse

Beatty

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Which best describes Clarisse McClellan?

1 point

a. She's Mildred's best friend.

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

c. She's part of an underground book club.

d. She's a shy orphan who doesn't fit into her classes at school.

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Who is Mildred?

1 point

a. She is Clarisse's mother.

b. She is Montag's wife.

c. She is a doctor at Emergency Hospital.

d. A co-worker of Montag's.

e. A young girl who befriends Montag.

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How is Clarisse viewed by the community?

1 point

a. She was revered as a holy one.

b. She was considered anti-social.

c. She was tolerated with amusement.

d. She was viewed as a spy.

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Who is Captain Beatty?

1 point

a. Montag's boss at work.

b. A retired naval officer. He often told old sea stories.

c. The man Montag talks to in the park

d. Clarisse's uncle

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Which metaphor is NOT used in this book?

1 point

Books as birds.

The bedroom as a mausoleum.

The firehose as a snake.

All of these are used.

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How long are billboards in this book?

1 point

20 feet long

200 feet long

2000 feet long

Billboards are illegal

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Where does Montag hide his books?

1 point

In his attic

Under his bed

In the air conditioning vent

Buried in his garden

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What does Mildred say happened to Clarrise?

1 point

a. She was hit by a car.

b. She was hypnotized and forced to change her thinking.

c. She was attacked by a pack of mechanical hounds.

d. She escaped to the wilderness and joined the rebels.

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What were parlor walls?

1 point

a. They were a kind of surround television with which the audience could interact.

b. They were portable partitions that could be repositioned to create a variety of living spaces.

c. They were hidden microphones that could monitor conversations.

d. They were barricades that separated one neighborhood from another.

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

1 point

a. Her uncle

b. From books she read

c. From fairytales

d. She had secretly read her grandmother's diaries, which she had hidden in her room.

e. Her mother

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What happens to Mildred in Part I?

1 point

a. She is captured and sent to a prison camp.

b. She has a heart attack in her sleep.

c. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills.

d. She becomes a spy for the government.

e. She runs away to become an actress.

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In the interview, which of the following did Bradbury NOT say he loved as a child?

1 point

Fairytales

Cars

Dinosaurs

Comic Books

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Who is "the family" in this book?

1 point

The people in the shows Mildred watches.

The rebels who hide books.

The firehouse community

Mildred's friends who watch shows with her.

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What did the old woman do?

1 point

a. She locked herself in her apartment and refused to watch.

b. She lit the match and then committed suicide.

c. She danced and threw more books on the blaze.

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

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According to the interview, which author/work did Bradbury NOT mention as an influence?

1 point

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

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

1 point

A salamander

A man

A lion

A dog

An alien

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

1 point

a. He sat and cried.

b. He wrote a poem.

c. He went out for a long walk.

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

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What smelled like perfume to Montag?

1 point

a. It was the printers ink on the books.

b. It was the cooking fumes from the restaurant.

c. It was the kerosene.

d. It was the smoke.

e. None of the above.

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Who is Faber?

1 point

A former librarian

A medical technician

A retired English professor

A lab worker

Clarisse's brother

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What did Captain Beatty believe?

1 point

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

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

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

d. 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.

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

1 point

a. Was he happy?

b. Could he read?

c. Did he ever want to get married?

d. Had he ever committed a crime?

e. Could he give her a ride?

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Which real world event does Bradbury NOT mention as an inspiration for Fahrenheit 451?

1 point

McCarthyism

Hitler's book burnings

Hiroshima

He mentions all of these

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

1 point

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

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

c. They had a famous person start the blaze.

d. They had the fires at night when they look prettier.

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Which of the following did you accomplish over break? Check only those that really apply.

4 points

I updated my timeline per directions--it's completely up-to-date

I put all of the required quotes in my quotebook

I copied out and illustrated Frost's poem in some way

I faithfully recited the poem 25 times over 4 days

What did Montag believe had been done to the robot?

1 point

a. It had been programmed to smell ink.

b. It had been programmed to explode.

c. It had been programmed to attack the elderly.

d. It had been programmed to act against Montag.

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Which of the following is NOT true?

1 point

A policeman stopped and questioned Bradbury and his friend one night.

Fahrenheit 451 was originally a short story

Bradbury wrote this book in nine weeks.

He has a great great great grandmother who accused of being a witch

All of the above are true.

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