Fahrenheit 451: Comprehension
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You will have 30 minutes to answer 45 comprehension questions about Fahrenheit 451. You will be able to take this test only 2 times, but you must retake it by next Friday, April 22, by 3 P. M. The test MUST be taken in my presence, preferably during WCW. Good Luck!
- 1.Who says the following?"She's nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books. It was her responsibility, she should've thought of that. I hate her. She's got you going and next thing you know we'll be out, no house, no job, nothing."
- A.
Guy Montag
- B.
Mildred
- C.
Captain Betty
- D.
Clarisse
- 2.Who says this quote?"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there bust be something there. You don't stay for nothing."
- A.
Clarisse
- B.
Captain Beatty
- C.
Guy Montag
- D.
Mildred
- 3.Who says the following?“I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.”
- A.
Captain Beatty
- B.
Clarisse
- C.
Montag
- D.
Mildred
- 4.Who says the following?"Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. . . . Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."
- A.
Guy Montag
- B.
Captain Beatty
- C.
Clarisse
- D.
Mildred
- 5.The following quote is an example of ___________________.“He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.”
- A.
Characterization
- B.
Personification
- C.
symbolism
- D.
Dramatic irony
- 6.Who says the following?“Well, this is a play comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes. They mailed me my part this morning. . . . They write the script with one part missing. It’s a new idea. The homemaker, that’s me, is the missing part.”
- A.
Clarisse
- B.
Montag
- C.
Beatty
- D.
Mildred
- 7.The Mechanical Hound tracks down its prey by its
- A.
Chemical complex
- B.
Height and weight
- C.
Physical description
- D.
Address
- 8.How does Montag feel about his job at the very beginning of the book?
- A.
Cautious and Unsure
- B.
Enthusiastic and Confident
- C.
Rebellious and Non-Accepting
- D.
He did not have a job
- 9.How did Montag first meet Clarisse McClellan?
- A.
He met her at a park
- B.
He met her at the fire station
- C.
His wife introduces him to Clarisse
- D.
He is walking home and he feels that somebody is there, and then he sees her
- 10.What did Mildred think/pretend happened the night before, when she was denying that she took too many pills?
- A.
Visited the firehouse
- B.
Read illegal books
- C.
Watched her shows in the parlor
- D.
A party
- 11.What does Montag think happened to the Mechanical Hound that made it not like him?
- A.
Somebody messed with his combination on the Hound's "memory" system
- B.
He once tripped over the Hound and injured it
- C.
The Hound sensed that he was reading books
- D.
The Hound did not like only being programed to hunt and kill
- 12.Montag thought that it was fitting for the woman to be at her house while they burned it and her books.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Captain Beatty comes to tell Montag about how the world started to ban technology, and a world dictator was installed, who wanted only sadness for the people.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.At the beginning of the novel how is Montag described?
- A.
As a policeman who hates his job
- B.
As a fireman who loves his job
- C.
As someone looking for a job
- D.
As a writer
- 15.On his way home Montag encounters someone unexpected. Who is it?
- A.
Faber
- B.
Beatty
- C.
Clarisse McClellan
- D.
Clare McDonald
- 16.Clarisse is characterized as a
- A.
15 year old thinking sophomore
- B.
17 year old thinking teenager
- C.
20 year old working woman
- D.
14 year old deaf freshman
- 17.As Montag looks into Clarisse's eyes he remembers what?
- A.
Going to school
- B.
Reading with his father
- C.
Writing with his mother
- D.
Reading with his mother by candlelight
- 18.Clarisse loves to ask questions. When she asks Montag if he is happy, this is significant because
- A.
He does not answer her
- B.
He says "yes" but he is not happy
- C.
He does not know the answer
- D.
He does not hear the question
- 19.When Montag returns home, how is the home described?
- A.
It is a luxurious home
- B.
A home full of light and color
- C.
A home with children
- D.
Like a place of death and darkness
- 20.After Montag realizes the answer to Clarisse's question, what event is a reflection on society in the future?
- A.
Mildred over-eats dinner
- B.
Montag goes back to work
- C.
Mildred overdoses on sleeping pills
- D.
Montag overdoses on sleeping pills
- 21.Why is Clarisse self-described as being anti-social?
- A.
Because she does not attend school
- B.
Because she reads books
- C.
Because she thinks
- D.
All of the above
- 22.Instead of a dog at the fire station the firemen have a Mechanical Hound. How is this a reflection on society?
- A.
All dogs have died
- B.
Society has become "mechanical" and unthinking
- C.
Society has rise above clear thinking
- D.
Society has become a utopia
- 23.Why does the Mechanical Hound threaten Montag at the Fire Station?
- A.
It recognizes Montag has handled/read books before
- B.
It recognizes Montag's fear in the air
- C.
It has been programmed to attack Montag
- D.
Because it thinks on its own
- 24.The protagonist is shaken to the core by a specific event. What happened?
- A.
A woman lost her home to a fire
- B.
A woman lit herself and books on fire
- C.
A man lit himself on fire
- D.
A man lost his home to a fire
- 25.What one question does Montag leave the scene wrestling with?
- A.
What was that person thinking?
- B.
Why didn't the firemen put out the fire?
- C.
Why did Beatty slap the woman on the face?
- D.
What would make someone willing to die for books?
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