Fahrenheit 451

Matching

Match the following names to the descriptions or quotations provided.

 

A. Montag

B. Faber

C. Clarisse

D. Mrs. Bowles

E. Beatty

AB. Granger

AC. Mrs. Phelps

AD. Black

AE. Harris

BC. Mildred

 

 

  1. Transient author; leader of the book people

 

  1. refuses to believe that she could have overdosed

 

  1. fireman; Montag plants books in his house

 

  1. Captain of the fire department

 

  1. Fireman; abandons his profession

 

  1. Montag’s neighbor; aware of the past

 

  1. Former English professor

 

  1. Cries at Montag’s reading

 

  1. Lives in Youngstown; carrier of Ecclesiastes

 

  1. Thinks Winston Noble is better looking than Hubert Hoag

 

  1. “Fire purifies and leaves everything clean.”

 

  1. “You can run any risk if you have nothing to lose”

 

  1. “My ‘family’ is real, they talk to me!”

 

  1. “I am a cowardly, lonely man.”

 

  1. “An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film teacher.”

 

  1. “We protect people and keep them happy.”

 

  1. “Our only value is in the books we have”

 

A. Montag

B. Faber

C. Clarisse

D. Mrs. Bowles

E. Beatty

AB. Granger

AC. Mrs. Phelps

AD. Black

AE. Harris

BC. Mildred

 

  1. “The real reason [they got rid of front porches] might be they didn’t want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life.”

 

  1. “I can’t stand those stupid women babbling about nothing!”

 

  1. “Maybe we can find some of the answers in books.”

 

  1. “Those who don’t build must burn.  It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”

 

  1. “Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in midair, all vanishes!  Whirl man’s mind around so fast … that the centrifuge flings off all the unnecessary, time-wasting thought!”

 

True/ False.  Use A to mark the answer True.  Use B to mark the answer False.

 

  1. Faber believes the only solution to the world’s problems is in books.

 

  1. Clarisse is jailed by the authorities for her beliefs.

 

  1. Most of the people of Montag’s time seem unconcerned about the war.

 

  1. Montag’s father and grandfather were firemen.

 

  1. The minimum speed limit on the freeways is 65 mph.

 

  1. Mildred knows she is really lonely and unhappy.

 

  1. History says that Benjamin Franklin was the first firman.

 

Multiple Choice

 

  1. The “Family” comes to Montag’s home through
    1. A pocket radio
    2. Books
    3. Parlor walls
    4. “White Clown” television shows

 

  1. Montag observes that the fires are usually set at night so they will
    1. Draw more attention
    2. Catch the perpetrators off guard
    3. Diminish the chance of children getting accidentally burned
    4. Not disturb the neighbors while they sleep
  2. “… like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum…” describes
    1. The train station
    2. Faber’s house
    3. The firehouse
    4. Montag’s bedroom

 

  1. Montag keeps in contact with Faber by means of
    1. The “Family”
    2. A seashell
    3. A green bullet
    4. Telepathy

 

  1. Montag must burn his own house after he is reported by
    1. Clarisse
    2. Beatty
    3. Mildred
    4. Faber

 

  1. The symbol of computerized law enforcement is the
    1. Police department
    2. Phoenix
    3. Helicopters
    4. Mechanical Hound

 

  1. Literature is preserved
    1. By television
    2. In the minds of the scholars
    3. By the church
    4. With computers

 

  1. When Montag tells his wife about her near suicide, she
    1. Laughs
    2. Is scared
    3. Doesn’t believe him
    4. Ignores him

 

  1. Mildred and her friends base their vote for the President on
    1. His looks
    2. His political platform
    3. Their husband’s decisions
    4. The government’s choice

 


  1. Beatty explains that the fireman’s job is
    1. To be the “Happiness Boys”
    2. Mechanized
    3. To burn books
    4. To take care of violators before the police arrive

 

  1. Montag’s contribution to Granger’s group is
    1. A copy of the Bible
    2. Gulliver’s Travels
    3. Part of the book of Ecclesiastes
    4. “The Pedestrian”

 

  1. The people of Montag’s time live for the pursuit of
    1. Leisure
    2. Thrills
    3. Knowledge
    4. Improvements of humankind

 

  1. Faber considers himself a
    1. Pioneer
    2. Coward
    3. Religious man
    4. Technologist

 

  1. Montag doesn’t want to return to work after
    1. He meets Clarisse
    2. His wife nearly dies
    3. The old woman burns
    4. He plants the books at Black’s house

 

  1. The authorities kill another man in place of Montag
    1. To appease the mechanical hound
    2. By mistake
    3. To protect their image
    4. To punish another reader

 

  1. Clarisse tells Montag she has a reputation at school of being
    1. Creative
    2. Popular
    3. Anti-social
    4. Athletic

 


  1. While viewing the ruins of the city, Granger recalls
    1. A tragic poem
    2. The myth of the Phoenix
    3. A quote from Shakespeare
    4. Ecclesiastes

 

  1. In the book, the Phoenix is a symbol of
    1. A society that hasn’t learned from the past and destroys itself
    2. The destruction of people who try to defy authority
    3. The futility of trying to help a society progress
    4. The hope of a new day

 

  1. The number 451 is the
    1. Temperature of boiling water
    2. Mechanical Hound’s serial number
    3. Temperature at which book paper ignites
    4. Address for the firehouse

 

  1. The only change in the routine of the firemen’s call to Montag’s house is
    1. It is at night
    2. Montag doesn’t go
    3. The police don’t arrive first
    4. The captain drives

 

  1. In Montag’s time, suicide is
    1. Widely publicized
    2. Commonplace
    3. Rare
    4. Reversible