Fahrenheit 451 - Multiple Choices and True/False Flashcards
True/False
Before meeting Clarisse, Montag enjoyed being a firemen.
True
True/False
The people of Montag’s time are unconcerned about war.
True
True/False
Mildred knows that she is unhappy; it’s why she attempted suicide.
False
True/False
Faber believed the solution to the world’s problems is found only in books
False
True/False
Clarisse is jailed by the authorities for her beliefs.
False
True/False
Montag’s father and grandfather were firemen
True
True/False
Montag’ said that John F. Kennedy, Jr. was the first fireman.
False
True/False
The rules of his society encourage tolerance for individual differences.
False
MC (multiple choice)
What is anti-social?
Book; behavior that deviates from the norm of the society, such as engaging in independent thought, spending time alone, or enjoying nature.
MC
Mildred and her friends help to point out the theme
a. Life becomes a series of robot-like movements,
b. they who draw the deepest meaning from life suffer most,
c. people are better off when they do not question
d. all of the above
d. All of the above
MC
The majors question Clarisse asked Montag was;
a. Does your wife know you are here?
b. Why do you have no children?
c. Are you happy?
d. Why did you become a fireman?
c. Are you happy?
MC
Faber said the three things missing from life were:
a. Sincerity, dedication, and hope
b. Quality of information, leisure, and the right to act
c. True education, patriotism, and personal profit
d. Concern for others, slow pace, and books;
b. Quality of information, leisure, and the right to act
MC
The meaning of the quotations spoken by the old woman, as she and her house burned, was:
a. Everyone must die, so why not now?
b. Worse injustices have been suffered by other people throughout history.
c. Some deaths are necessary to spark actions for the sake of freethinking.
d. Missing
c. Some deaths are necessary to spark actions for the sake of freethinking.
MC
Ray Bradbury uses science fiction in this novel mainly to:
a. Provide the reader with an escape from real-life
b Criticize people who hate books and intellectuals
c. Predict scientific gadgets that will be invested in the future
d. Warn today’s people about where their faults could lead in the future
d. Warn today’s people about where their faults could lead in the future
MC
Clarisse’s main purpose in the novel is:
a. To cause Montag to question the values of his society
b. To cause Montag to stop loving Mildred
c. To commit suicide for his beliefs
d. To represent the cycle of events the societies follows
a. To cause Montag to question the values of his society
MC
Beatty’s main purpose in the novel is;
Missing options
To act as a foil to Montag’s character, embodying the oppressive forces of the society, and to challenge Montag’s thoughts on rebellion.
MC
Faber’s main purpose in the plot is:
a. Suggest Montag to kill Beatty
b. Give Montag a new model to imitate
c. Reassure Montag’s ideas for change are correct.
d. To prevent the destruction of the Bible
c. Reassure Montag’s ideas for change are correct
MC
The promise at the end of the novel is;
a. The phoenix will rise
b. Man will rise
c. Book people will succeed
d. Montag will turn the use of fire from destruction to construction in a new fire department
The phoenix will rise
symbols
Books
a. Danger
b. Sources of sorrow
d. Lost of freedoms
c. All of the above
c. All of the above
symbols
Fire
a. Ignorance
b. Destruction of responsibility
c. Cleansing from a previous life
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
Symbols
Mechanical hound
a. Computers in general
b. Man’s best friend
c. The threat of technology
d. All of the above
c. The threat of technology
Symbols
Parlor walls
a. Mind-numbing technological entertainment
b. Replacement for family
c. Freedom of speech
d. Both a and b
d. Both a and b
Symbols
Mirrors
a. Vanity (Being overly concerned with how you look)
b. Need to reflect (think)
c. Seven years of bad luck
d. None of the above
b. Need to reflect
Symbols
Phoenix
a. A society that hasn’t learned from the past
b. Hope in destruction
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
c. Both a and b
Symbols
The sand and the sieve
a. Ignorance and knowledge
b. Love and people
c. Memory and the elusiveness of truth
d. all
c. Memory and the elusiveness of truth
Symbols
Rain
a. love and laughter
b. truth and knowledge
c. Love and people
d. none of the above
b. truth and knowledge
Symbols
War
a. Destruction of society
b. inner and outer conflict
c. both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
c. both a and b
Symbols
Clarisse
a. light of truth
b. antisocial behavior
c. fear.
d. love
a. light of truth
Quotes
“Don’t you see, Montag we must be all alike, not everyone is born equal as the constitution says, but everyone made equal, each man in the image of every other; then all are happy”
Beatty
Quotes
“The good writers touch life often, The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies”
Faber
Quotes
“I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten…they’d just as soon kick me as kiss me. Thank God, I can kick back.”
Mrs. Bowles
Quotes
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house. Something your hand touched some way so you should have somewhere to go when you die..”
Granger
“there was an as silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. Every time he burned himself up, he sprang out of the ashes. It looks like we’re doing the same…”
Granger
quotes
“What are you talking about” My family is real. They talk to me!”
Mildred
Quotes
“Have you ever noticed how rain tastes like wine?”
Clarisse
Quotes
“It’s not a book you need; It’s some of the things that were once in books.”
Faber
Quotes
“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not be let alone; we need to be bothered once in a while. How long has it been since you were bothered—about something important, about something real?
Montag
