fahrenheit 451 test (10th grade) complete exam questions with correct answers

Fireman. - correct answers What is Guy Montag;s profession? This is the temperature at which paper burns. - correct answers What is the significance of the numbers 451? They like talking to each other and going for walks. - correct answers What does Clarisse say is peculiar about her family? Are you happy? - correct answers What question does Clarisse ask Montag at the end of their first conversation? To extinguish fires. - correct answers What does Clarisse explain was the original duty of firemen? He has realized that he is not really happy. - correct answers What has made Montag agitated after Clarisse asks him if he is happy? Seashells. - correct answers What are the radio plugs that idled listens to every night called? She denies it and starts discussing television. - correct answers How does Mildred react when Montag confronts her about her suicide attempt? Dandelion pollen comes off when you rub it under your chin. - correct answers According to Clarrise, how can you tell if you are in love? Walking around in the rain. - correct answers What is Clarisse doing when Montag finds her outside? It only knows and thinks what others program it to do. - correct answers Why does Montag pity the Mechnical hound? She thinks it is boring and not stimulating. - correct answers Why does Clarisse stop going to school? To burn English-influenced books in the colonies. - correct answers According to the rule book, what was the original purpose of the Firemen of America? A book. - correct answers What does Montag take from the old lady's burning house? She sets herself and her house on fire. - correct answers What happens to the old women? Under his pillow. - correct answers Where does Montag hide the book he has taken from the old women's house? She can't remember. - correct answers Where does Mildred say she and Montag first met? She was run over and killed by a car. - correct answers According to Mildred, what happened to Clarisse? The programs she watches on television. - correct answers To whom or what is Mildred referring when she mentions her "family"? Kerosene. - correct answers What smell makes Montag vomit? He has come to check on the sick Montag. - correct answers What reason does Beatty give for his visit to Montag's home? Television, photography, and film made reading less popular, the demand for simple, easy-to-read material made books obsolete, and people in various special interest groups found books increasingly offensive. - correct answers According to Beatty, what factors contributed to firemen adopting the role of book burners. She tries to draw attention to it. - correct answers What does Mildred do when she discovers the book behind Montag's pillow? A stack of stolen books. - correct answers What is hidden behind the ventilator? Gulliver's Travels. - correct answers What is the first book that Montag starts to read as he searches for the source of his unhappiness? She finds them frustrating and prefers television. - correct answers What is Mildred's reaction to the books? A professor that Montag met in a park. - correct answers Who is Faber? He is irritated by a commercial jingle. - correct answers What upsets Montag while he is on the subway? It doesn't give the viewer the opportunity to reflect on meaning. - correct answers According to Faber, what is the problem with television? He is going to substitute a fake book for the Bible. - correct answers What is Montag;s plan to avoid giving his Bible to Beatty? Job. - correct answers Which book of the Bible does Faber read over the radio to Montag? Dover Beach. - correct answers Which poem does Montag read to Mildred and Mrs. Phelps? The presence of war. - correct answers What objection does Faber raise when Montag argues that people might be better off focusing on fun? Throws it in the trash. - correct answers What does Beatty do with the book that Montag gives him? Montag's. - correct answers Whose house are the firemen called to? Mildred. - correct answers Who does Montag suspect called in the alarm to his house? Burns him with the flame thrower. - correct answers What does Montag do to Beatty after burning his house? A carful of children. - correct answers Who is driving the car that almost hits Montag? In the house of a fellow firemen. - correct answers Where does Montag hide his last remaining books? St. Louis. - correct answers Where do Montag and Faber agree to meet at some point in the future? Look out their houses for Montag. - correct answers What do the police ask everyone to do at the count of ten? Clarisse had once walked here. - correct answers What does Montag feel certain of as he starts out down the railroad track? A group of men sitting by a fire. - correct answers What does Montag find as he's walking in the country? They have been watching the class on a small TV. - correct answers What leads the homeless men to expect Montag's arrival? They identify another man as Montag and have him killed. - correct answers What do the police do when they cannot find Montag? Former professors and intellectuals. - correct answers Who are the men that Montag meets by the fire? The Book of Ecclesiastes. - correct answers What book does Montag possess the "back-up copy" of? Bombs being dropped on the city. - correct answers What do the men see as they are walking in darkness? In Chicago. - correct answers Where did Montag meet his wife? A mirror factory. - correct answers What does Granger say is the first thing they will need to build in the new city. English. - correct answers Faber is a former professor of which subject? 24th. - correct answers In what century does the story take place? He is well read but enforces the state views about books. - correct answers What is Captain Beatty's relationship with books? War. - correct answers What is the imposing threat throughout this novel? To burn illegal books. - correct answers What is the primary duty of the firemen in the novel? "Dover Beach" - correct answers What poem does Montag read to his wife, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles? The old women. - correct answers Which character says the following: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." The old women's death. - correct answers Which of the following is a highly motivating force of change for Montag? Granger. - correct answers Who is the leader of the social outcasts and criminals? Captain Beatty. - correct answers Who says the following: "Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with your books." She likes conversation. - co