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Fahrenheit 451:
“The Hearth and the Salamander”
Study guide: Part 1 (pages 3-18)
Directions: Write answers in complete sentences. Provide quotations and page numbers.
1. What is the main character’s occupation?
2. What is the main character’s name? (first and last)
3. How does the character feel about his occupation?
4. In the first paragraph, what is the python? Explain why the description is a metaphor.
5. What are the symbols of his occupation?
6. What does he always smell like? According to Montag, what does she smell like? How do these
descriptions of their smells represent their characterization?
7. What does the conversation about “Houses have always been fireproof” mean?
8. Whom does he meet? (Provide first and last names.)
9. Describe her. Identify one simile that is used for her description.
10. What question does she ask him?
11. Describe his home.
12. What is the name of the wife?
13. What did she try to do?
14. How is she helped? Describe the procedure.
15. What bothers him about all of this? (see page 16)
Additional Information:
Define Hearth-
Define Salamander-
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Fahrenheit 451:
“The Hearth and the Salamander”
Study guide: Part 1 (pages 18-36)
Directions: Write answers in complete sentences. Provide page numbers.
1. What surprised Montag about his wife?
2. What does Montag tell her in order to explain how she was feeling?
3. What was her response to his explanation?
4. What does Mildred want her husband to buy her? How much does it cost?
5. What happens with the dandelions?
6. Why does Clarisse go to the psychiatrist?
7. At Montag’s work, what concerns him? Describe it.
8. Why isn’t Clarisse missed at school? Explain.
9. Who is Montag’s boss?
10. What are the firemen’s rules? (List the rules.)
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Fahrenheit 451:
“The Hearth and the Salamander”
Study guide: Part 1 (pages 36-68)
Review:
1. What does Montag accidentally say that arouses Beatty’s attention?
2. Then, what questions does he ask that surprises Beatty and the other fireman?
3. Who supposedly was the first fireman? How did the occupation come to be?
4. What were the 5 rules of the firemen?
Directions: Write answers in complete sentences. Provide quotes and page numbers.
New Section:
1. How did the firemen know which houses had books?
2. What lie did Captain Beatty tell Montag?
3. What did Montag do in the old lady's attic?
4.Why were the alarms to burn always at night?
5. Why did the old woman light the match and commit suicide?
6. Define heresy. Explain its use on page 40. How does it relate to what the old lady quoted?
7. What happened to Clarisse? Was it an accident? Explain.
8. What was Montag afraid that Captain Beatty would discover when he came to visit?
9. Why did Captain Beatty believe books should be destroyed?
10. What did Montag show Mildred after the captain had left the house?
Define social criticism.