English exam review - Fahrenheit 451 questions with multiple choices guaranteed pass.

Guy Montag - correct answers Guy is a very thoughtful man. he was a fireman who was very curious and later discovers he is unhappy. Guy started to take a liking to books and started to steal them from houses. Some significant things guy did were things like killing Captain Beatty, reciting poetry in front of his wives friends, running off to Granger and calling Faber. Mildred Montag - correct answers Mildred is Guy's wife. She was very empty and emotionless. We see Mildred very much as a product of her society because she prefers TV over her husbands company. Some important actions taken by her were attempting suicide, she also calls the alarm on her husband Guy. She constantly taking pills all the time and leaves her husband. Clarisse McClellan - correct answers Clarisse is a very young and curios girl who thinks very out of the box and is looked at as anti- social compared to all other "normal" people. She loves books and is very happy. When she and Montag met she asked him if he was happy which made him think and start ti do things like take the books from the houses. She is later killed by a car which lets Montag feel terrible. Captain Beatty - correct answers Captain Beatty is the fire chief of the fire department that Guy works at. He is very against books although he knows a lot about books though. he always tease Montag and is an investigator. He tries to convince or pressure Montag into thinking the same way he does. When he taunts Montag he gets burned alive by him. professor Faber - correct answers He is a retired english professor and he is very old and wise. He also seems to be well aware and knows himself as quite cowardly. He is very smart and inventive, he very much rejects technology and is very paranoid. He helps Montag learn more about life and books. He also helps him run away and tells him where to go. He plans to print copies of the books in the future. granger - correct answers He is the leader of the Ex intellectuals , he is extremely smart and welcoming to Montag. He helped to insure that literature will be remembered in the future by memorizing books and creating a group to memorize books with him. the theme of the power of literature and writing - correct answers - books are banned and if you were caught the fire department would burn your house - without literature we are stuck in a rock and hard place why does Beatty explain that the books are problematic? - correct answers because society started to find things in the books that were wrong and refused to read them anymore having them burned what does Faber believe about books? - correct answers he believes that they are not important rather the information inside of the books is vital, the reflection of life and the world at large. what does granger believe about books? - correct answers he believes those who study literature or read books are the receptacles for the knowledge they carry. At the end of the novel, Granger tells Montag that they all need to remember not to feel superior, it is the books, that are important, not the people. Earlier, Faber claims it isn't the books that matter, but the way life is reflected in them. Are these complimentary or contradictory statements and why? - correct answers these are complimentary, Faber is saying also that the books are not as important to life but life is reflective in them and granger says that the books are important not the people so they are not disagreeing and also not saying the same thing. If books and TV both have the capacity to convey information on a mass scale, then why are books so much more superior in this novel? - correct answers the books are much more superior in this novel to show that books are something that will always be in our lives and we will need them. The common knowledge of books and how to read is extremely vital in our lives and the books shows that books cause people to think and thinking is the best thing for you. the theme of the impact of technology and modernization - correct answers - technology/ tv takes up full walls or rooms - they have constant radio broadcast in their ears -people rely on inventions for everything they do not want to do on their own what does technology do to the society ? - correct answers it dominates society and is the enemy. it replaces literature, curiosity, family, friendship and conversation. it rains supreme because of the "happiness" it offers. people are happier when they don't have to think. the government also finds ways to make everyone think the same way through technology. how does Montag think of technology? - correct answers he thinks that it has taken over society with Clarisse and reflects on it as he opens up the world of books and knowledge. what does Montag do when he escapes his old life ? - correct answers he begins a simple life with no technology what does Ray Bradbury comment about technology? - correct answers he thinks it is a negative influence and that it may destroy society. Faber says that books can be beaten down with reason, but TV overwhelms the senses. Is he right? Does TV really deserve all the credit? - correct answers i think that faber is right. tv does not deserve all the credit it gets because it ruins people look on life and could be used for negative things instead of what it is for. In the digitized, mechanical world, what makes something "great"? What's more real, books or TV? Are either really substantive? - correct answers the fact that you don't need to imagine you can just see it and be able to feel emotions better. i think tv is more real because of the visualization but books can be extremely descriptive. yes i think that they are both substantive the theme of wisdom and knowledge, knowledge vs. ignorance - correct answers - is ignorance bliss or do knowledge and learning provide true happiness - montag, Faber and Beatty's struggle revolves around the tension between knowledge and ignorance - the firemen's duty is to destroy knowledge and promote ignorance to make the pop essentially equalized - society is not allowed to think/ read/ or be curious how does beatty use his knowledge? - correct answers he has a great deal of knowledge of books but he never uses it for self -enlightenment. he is disgusted with the amount of knowledge he knows and feels it is useless. Beatty could use his knowledge but chooses to live with ignorance. how does Montag use his knowledge? - correct answers in the beginning he is ignorant of what his actions are doing, however when Montag meets the old woman and her books, he is confronted with the knowledge, the desire to keep the books. seeing her actions and watching her die for her knowledge and books, it makes it impossible for him to live and work ignorance. Montag's own search for knowledge destroys his ignorance. Montag meets Clarisse and he no longer is ignorant. what happened? - correct answers he receives some different knowledge, the knowledge of asking questions and wondering. Clarisse always asks and wonders about things in the world. Montag never asks anything, too ignorant to ask in any way never questions. however once he starts to question things, his world changes. Montag fights against his ignorance and this is what makes him rebel against the government. how is Mildred's ignorance seen? - correct answers when she plugs herself into the seashell radio every night. she is also unaware of her overdoses and does not remember doing so; she watches TV all day and finds the tv fascinating even though she is learning, and thinking nothing at all. The government even controls what the actors say/think. Of Montag's three mentors- Clarisse, Faber and Granger, who is the most knowledgeable? What are the differences between their philosophies? - correct answers faber was the most knowledgable because he had the most experience although Clarisse her philosophy was much more alive and young while faber's and grangers were much more realistic Was Clarisse really "wise"? - correct answers although clarisee had experience with books and questions she really was not experienced enough to be knowledgable because she did not live on the major time of books and knowledge Does Montag really need books to find the wisdom he's looking for? - correct answers no because all he needed to see was that he was not happy with his wife and with his job he was also unhappy about his way of life but books would not have done anything but give him a different knowledge than he was looking for the theme of dissatisfaction vs. happiness - correct answers - In Fahrenheit 451, everyone seems happy, or at least they think they are - They are never forced to see anything unpleasant, they're never truly bothered by anything - Almost everyone is dissatisfied, but no one is willing to admit it. what makes the people think they are "happy"? - correct answers - the government - they think that constant motion is good and fun but it is just a distraction - People in Fahrenheit 451 are actually unhappy, terrified to expose themselves to any kind of emotion that will force them to face their despair what was different about the happiness of Clarisse ? - correct answers she asks Montag if he is happy and he says no but she is happy because she loves life, she enjoys her surroundings and nature and the world around her. she is happy with questioning, knowing and wondering. she cannot imagine what life is without being happy. what is Montag's happiness? - correct answers - Only after Montag acknowledges he is unhappy does he make the life changing decision to resist his society's oppressive happiness. Montag sees his life and realizes that no one is truly happy. He asks Mildred if she is happy, which Mildred answers promptly that she is of course happy. what is wrong with mildred saying she is happy? - correct answers doesn't know if she is happy or not. She is so distracted with her TV and her life around her she doesn't have time to think about being happy. Mildred was so distracted she overdoses her sleeping pills, not realizing it. (Others believe she was so unhappy she took them on purpose, showing only how deeply unhappy Mildred is.) how is beatty happy? - correct answers with his lack of knowledge and his ignorance. He is happy when he burns books, takes "candy from a baby", and destroys things that were once viewed as sacred. what is Faber's view on happiness ? - correct answers his "pursuit of happiness" is based around knowledge: the quality of information you are given, your ability to read/take it in at your own leisure and the ability to act on these two. Yet is this what makes him happy? In the end, we see Faber happy that not only did Montag survive the fire, yet he also survived with his "head on", feeling alive and being enlightened. Faber is happy seeing someone else live his dream as opposed to doing it himself. Are characters like Mildred and her friends happy? Are the content? Is there a difference? - correct answers Montag yells at Mildred for having never been bothered by anything. Is that a bad thing? Why or Why not? - correct answers After Montag talks with Clarisse, he claims his "mask of happiness" has been lifted. Does this mean he was never really happy in the first place or that Clarisse took his happiness away? - correct answers