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Fahrenheit 451: Test Review
CHARACTERS - Be able to identify the following characters by their most dominant characteristics or
traits:
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Captain Beatty
Clarisse McClellan
Faber
Granger
Guy Montag
Mildred Montag
SCIENCE FICTION ELEMENTS - Be able to identify the following science fiction elements/items:
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Big Flue
Parlor Wall
Electric-Eyed Snake
Salamander
Mechanical Hound
LITERARY ELEMENTS - Be able to identify the following literary elements:
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characterization
metaphor
personification
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simile
symbolism
theme
GENERAL QUESTIONS - Be able to answer the following questions:
According to Beatty, what factors contributed to firemen adopting the role of book burners?
According to the rule book, what was the original purpose of the Firemen of America?
After the burning of the woman’s house, what smell makes Montag vomit?
At the start of the novel, how does Montag feel about his job as a fireman?
Did Montag ever really love his wife?
How are the men Montag meets preserving books?
How are the men who memorize books similar to the firemen in the book?
How do the firemen know which houses have books?
How does Mildred react when Montag confronts her about her suicide attempt?
How does the mechanical hound track its prey?
How long has Montag been hiding books?
In the first portion of the book, why does the elderly woman burn down her own house?
In what way is Captain Beatty a contradiction in himself?
What do the police do when they cannot find Montag?
What does Faber think when Montag first contacts him?
What does Mildred use as a means of escape? Be sure to create a brief list.
What does Montag do to Beatty after burning his own house?
What does Montag find as begins walking in the country?
What does Montag take from the old lady’s burning house?
What happens when the war finally takes place?
What is hidden behind the ventilator grill inside of Montag’s home?
What is Mildred’s reaction to the books that Montag has inside of their home?
What leads the outcasts to expect Montag’s arrival?
What question does Clarisse ask Montag at the end of their first conversation?
When Montag meets Clarisse McClellan, Montag describes her face as a mirror; why?
Which book of the Bible does Faber read over the radio to Montag?
Which poem does Montag read to Mildred and her friends?
While on the run, where does Montag hide the last of his remaining books?
Why does Faber consider himself a coward?
QUOTES - Be able to attribute the following quotes to the appropriate characters:
“I don’t talk things, sir,” […] “I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.”
“I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends on what you
mean by social, doesn’t it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.”
“Kerosene is nothing but perfume to me.”
“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.”
“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house;
there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”
“There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,
and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the
time.”
“We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.”
“You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked
you.”