FAHRENHEIT 451 ENGLISH TEST
Mannikin - answers- a dummy used to display clothes
Quarry - answers- something haunted
Pedant - answers- a person who makes an excessive display of learning
Metropolis - answers- a large, busy city
Venomous - answers- posionous
Imperceptible - answers- very slight or gradual; barely noticeable
Mausoleum - answers- a stately tomb or a burial place
Pulverize - answers- to reduce to dust or powder; demolish completely
Melancholy - answers- a depressed or gloomy state of mind
Odious - answers- hateful, offensive
Juggernaut - answers- a large, destructive object that crashes everything in its path
Ricochet - answers- to bounce off something from the force of impact
Luminosity - answers- brightness
Incriminate - answers- to name others as involved in a crime
Fragmentary - answers- consisting of fragments; broken; incomplete
Scythe - answers- a tool with a large, curving blade use to cut (hay, wheat) by hand
Cataract - answers- a furious rush or downpour of water; a torrent
Feign - answers- to put on the appearance of; to pretend
Pratfall - answers- a comic or humiliating fall onto rear end
Serenity - answers- peacefulness
Gibber - answers- to talk in a confused, meaningless way
, Part one: on the first page of the book, author ray bradbury uses several metaphors to
describe guy montag as he compares his job. Find and write two of the metaphors,
explaining the effect bradbury is trying to create with each metaphor choice. - answers-
"...with his great python". The flamethrower. "....amazing conductors" they think the
flame is beautiful
Look back over the opening sequence before guy montag meets clarisse mcclellan.
What two adjectives would describe guy? What evidence leads you to this conclusion. -
answers- montag is paranoid and desensitized about the society
In the moment that montag first sees clairees, what is his main color bradbury wants us
to associate with this girl, and what, symbocally, what is the significant with this color
choice? - answers- he wants us to see pink and colors to show that she is not like other
teenage girls.
How old is montage and how long has he been a fireman - answers- montag is thirty
and he has been a fireman for ten years
At first clairees tells montag that she's 17 and, later she admits that she'll be 17 next
month. She says, "im seventeen and iand i am crazy. My uncle says the two also go
together. When people ask your age he says, always say 17 and say insane" first,
decide whether you think her uncle is
Right- is there a special kind of insanity and 17 year olds? Explain your answer.
Second, give in the world that montag clarice, how do you uncle's advice be seen as
practical and wise? Explain this answer, to - answers- i think her uncle is right because
17 is the age where you think you're an adult yet you are crazy with childish thoughts.
The uncles advice might be wise because the teenagers want to be rebellious and you
need to "stay away"
And bradberry's version of the future, how have the roadside billboards change? What
does this do you tell the reader about the society? - answers- the roadside billboards
changed because she said in the back country there are 200 feet long but right now in
the present they're only 20 feet long
What metaphor t does bradbury used to describe the earbuds in mildred's ears? What
should alarm the reader about this description? - answers- use the metaphor bees
humming. I called out this society just wants to be with technology and have it with them
all the time
The man who arrive in the night to pump mildred's stomach i have a casual indifferent
about their work. How many cases like this to you they handl the man who arrive in the
night to pump milk bread's stomach i have a casual in different about their work. How
many cases like this do they handle each night? What does this show about this world -
answers- the men say they have about nine or 10 of them each night. This shows us
that there is so much more crime, drug addiction and life taken away.
Mannikin - answers- a dummy used to display clothes
Quarry - answers- something haunted
Pedant - answers- a person who makes an excessive display of learning
Metropolis - answers- a large, busy city
Venomous - answers- posionous
Imperceptible - answers- very slight or gradual; barely noticeable
Mausoleum - answers- a stately tomb or a burial place
Pulverize - answers- to reduce to dust or powder; demolish completely
Melancholy - answers- a depressed or gloomy state of mind
Odious - answers- hateful, offensive
Juggernaut - answers- a large, destructive object that crashes everything in its path
Ricochet - answers- to bounce off something from the force of impact
Luminosity - answers- brightness
Incriminate - answers- to name others as involved in a crime
Fragmentary - answers- consisting of fragments; broken; incomplete
Scythe - answers- a tool with a large, curving blade use to cut (hay, wheat) by hand
Cataract - answers- a furious rush or downpour of water; a torrent
Feign - answers- to put on the appearance of; to pretend
Pratfall - answers- a comic or humiliating fall onto rear end
Serenity - answers- peacefulness
Gibber - answers- to talk in a confused, meaningless way
, Part one: on the first page of the book, author ray bradbury uses several metaphors to
describe guy montag as he compares his job. Find and write two of the metaphors,
explaining the effect bradbury is trying to create with each metaphor choice. - answers-
"...with his great python". The flamethrower. "....amazing conductors" they think the
flame is beautiful
Look back over the opening sequence before guy montag meets clarisse mcclellan.
What two adjectives would describe guy? What evidence leads you to this conclusion. -
answers- montag is paranoid and desensitized about the society
In the moment that montag first sees clairees, what is his main color bradbury wants us
to associate with this girl, and what, symbocally, what is the significant with this color
choice? - answers- he wants us to see pink and colors to show that she is not like other
teenage girls.
How old is montage and how long has he been a fireman - answers- montag is thirty
and he has been a fireman for ten years
At first clairees tells montag that she's 17 and, later she admits that she'll be 17 next
month. She says, "im seventeen and iand i am crazy. My uncle says the two also go
together. When people ask your age he says, always say 17 and say insane" first,
decide whether you think her uncle is
Right- is there a special kind of insanity and 17 year olds? Explain your answer.
Second, give in the world that montag clarice, how do you uncle's advice be seen as
practical and wise? Explain this answer, to - answers- i think her uncle is right because
17 is the age where you think you're an adult yet you are crazy with childish thoughts.
The uncles advice might be wise because the teenagers want to be rebellious and you
need to "stay away"
And bradberry's version of the future, how have the roadside billboards change? What
does this do you tell the reader about the society? - answers- the roadside billboards
changed because she said in the back country there are 200 feet long but right now in
the present they're only 20 feet long
What metaphor t does bradbury used to describe the earbuds in mildred's ears? What
should alarm the reader about this description? - answers- use the metaphor bees
humming. I called out this society just wants to be with technology and have it with them
all the time
The man who arrive in the night to pump mildred's stomach i have a casual indifferent
about their work. How many cases like this to you they handl the man who arrive in the
night to pump milk bread's stomach i have a casual in different about their work. How
many cases like this do they handle each night? What does this show about this world -
answers- the men say they have about nine or 10 of them each night. This shows us
that there is so much more crime, drug addiction and life taken away.
