Fahrenheit 451: Story Quiz 2

Ace your Fahrenheit 451 quiz! Test plot, characters, and figurative language.

How did the firemen know which houses had books? The books all had a bar code that could be read for up to a mile away by a special computerized disk. Neighbors, family members, and friends became informants, and telephoned the authorities. They conducted random searches. The fire dogs could sniff them out. What lie did Captain Beatty tell Montag? He told Montag that authors had never been appreciated; indeed, they had always been regarded as outcasts. He told Montag that women were too delicate to be firemen. He told Montag that firemen had never been used to prevent fires, only start them. He told Montag that he (Montag) was next in line for a promotion at work. What did Montag do in the old lady's attic? He took a book. He sat and cried. He destroyed all of her photographs. He took a nap. What did the old woman do? She locked herself in her apartment and refused to watch. She lit the match and used it to commit suicide. She danced and threw more books into the blazing fire. She dressed in black, knelt before the fire, and cried. Who does Mildred say is her family? Clarisse and her family next door The characters on the parlor walls Her sister she visited to watch the parlor walls Captain Beatty What happened to Clarisse? She was hit by a car. She was brainwashed and forced to change her thinking. She was attacked by a pack of mechanical hounds. She was kidnapped. What did Captain Beatty believe? He believed that all people should be masters of their own destinies. He believed that books put upsetting thoughts in people's minds and kept them from being happy and satisfied. He believed that firemen should be the highest paid workers because they were doing the most important job in society. He believed that the world was about to end because of all of the greed and corruption. What is the "itch" that Captain Beatty tells Montag that all firemen experience sooner or later? A rash from the uniforms The desire to become a fire captain The curiousity about what is in books The desire to move to another city What would happen if Captain Beatty thought Montag had kept a book? Montag would sit and cry. Captain Beatty would fire him from his job. Captain Beatty would come burn down his house. Captain Beatty would borrow the book and read it. What did Montag do after the captain had left the house? He sat and cried. He disinfected everything the captain had touched. He went for a long walk. He showed Mildred the books he had been stealing and hiding. Matching Figurative Language. Match the quotation to the type of figurative language. "We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early." idiom "The poison jumped over from shoulder blade to shoulder blade like a spark leaping a gap." analogy "I didn't do that. Never in a billion years." hyperbole "something lay hidden behind that grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now" personification Identify each quotation as a simile or metaphor. Simile "She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock." "He wore his happiness like a mask..." "Beatty was looking at him as if he were a museum statue." "They [the books] fell like slaughtered birds..." Metaphor "...the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb world where no sound from the great city could penetrate." "But instead he stood there, very cold, his face a mask of ice..." "A fountain of books sprang down upon Montag..." "... her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw."