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Fahrenheit 451 Final Exam
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Date______________
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I. Quote Identification: For each quote identify who is speaking, tell me what
the context is (what is going on in the story) and tell me why it is an important
issue, or why it matters (3 points each)
1. “I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they
never see them slowly… If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say,
that’s grass… Brown blurs are cars. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once…
and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?” What point is
the speaker making about society?
Speaker: ______________________
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2. “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel
good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco
and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.
Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the
incinerator.” What are the reasons the speaker gives for censorship?
Speaker: ______________________
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3. “There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few
hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first
cousin to Man.” Why does the speaker compare Man to a phoenix?
Speaker: ______________________
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II. Multiple Choice – choose the correct answer for each question (1 point each)
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
How does Foreshadowing affect the Time and Sequence of the story?
It provides a historical context in which the story may be read
It gives subtle hints about what might happen next creating suspense and mystery
It flashes back to give the reader more information
It creates vivid description that appeals to the senses
2.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Why is Beatty himself a contradiction?
He convinces Montag to kill him
He believes what the firemen do is right
He lets Montag have a book for 24 hours
He believes books are worthless, yet he is well read
3.
a)
b)
c)
d)
What could be considered a theme of the novel?
The dangers of technological advancement
Ignorance leads to unhappiness and destruction
T.V. is bad, reading is good
All of the above
4.
a)
b)
c)
The tone of the narrator is _______________.
Humorous
Content
Positive and carefree
d) Dark and ironic
5.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Which event in the story could be considered ambiguous?
The manner in which Beatty is killed
The disappearance of Clarisse
Whose side Faber is on
How Montag escapes the Hound
6.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Which of Bradbury’s predictions in the novel have since come true?
Young adolescents killing each other with guns and violence
Televisions would increase in size and influence over the public
The Government fighting a war with severe ramifications
All of the above
7.
a)
b)
c)
d)
What was Montag’s Internal Conflict?
A struggle to understand knowledge and individuality
An attempt to find out what happened to Clarisse
He tried to memorize the Bible
Whether or not he wanted to go to war
8. What traits does Montag find odd about Clarisse?
a.
b.
c.
d.
She is not odd, she is just like everyone else
She has ideas, and likes to talk about them
She is rude and angry.
She is quiet and polite.
9. What type of figurative language is the following-“One of them slid down into your
stomach like a black cobra…”
a. Personification
b. Simile
c. Hyperbole
d. Rhyme
10. From which point-of-view is the novel written?
a. 1st Person
b. 2nd Person
c. 3rd person
d. a and b
11. What is it about the woman’s death that bothers Montag the most?
a. The cops weren’t doing there job by getting there first
b. There must be a reason she would die for her books
c. They weren’t able to light the fire.
d. She was crazy
12. What does Beatty say took the place of books in society?
a. Television and radio
b. Shorter and shorter abbreviated novels and stories
c. Sports and fun
d. All of the above
13. Of which idea is Mildred symbolic?
a. That marriage is an institution that should be taken seriously
b. Women’s rights
c. Suicide is wrong
d. The effects of technology on the individual
14. What is Faber’s plan when Montag leaves him to run for the river?
a. Give himself up to the authorities
b. Leave town and go find a printer
c. Try to kill the Mechanical Hound on Montag’s trail
d. Stay inside, because he is weak and scared
15. Montag is almost caught when…
a. Everyone in town opens their door at the same time to look for him
b. The second hound catches him
c. He is at Faber’s house hiding with the sprinklers on
d. The other firemen catch him in the Salamander
16. Explain how Montag “dies” on television.
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17. What kind of society has Granger and others created?
a. A group of hobos who go from place to place
b. A place where intellectuals can still talk about ideas
c. An underground society who memorize books word for word
d. All of the above
18. How does Montag envision Mildred’s death?
a. He thinks she hanged herself
b. He imagines her final moment of realization just as a bomb kills her
c. He imagines her new life with a new man she hates and kids she doesn’t know
d. He realizes he loves her at the end
19. In the end, the path of society ended in:
a. Everyone was happy
b. The city was destroyed by war
c. The firemen were put out of business
d. People began to love books and knowledge again
20. When Montag sees the fire at Granger’s camp it says, “It was not burning. It was
warming.” What does this show about the symbol of fire throughout the novel:
a. Montag believed fire is only meant to destroy
b. His understanding of fire changes
c. He sees that fire is also a form or rebirth
d. All of the above
III. Definition- write the definition of each word (1 point each)
1.____Exotic
2.____Mourn
3.____Illumination
4.____Prior
5.____Obligation
6.____Perpetual
7.____Writhing
8.____Trajectory
9.____Objectively
10.___Cadence
11.___Gingerly
12.___Quarry
A. The path something follows
B. Not influenced by personal feeling or opinion
C. Twisting, squirming
D. An inflection in voice
E. Colorful, out of the ordinary
F. Always, never-ending
G. Before
H. Carefully, in a cautious manner
I. To light up
J. Show sorrow
K. An animal pursued by a hunter, target
L. Required, must be done