Fahrenheit 451 Test

Question 1

Perpetual

Answer 1

Continuous, ongoing

Question 2

Aesthetic

Answer 2

Something that is pleasing to the eye

Question 3

Anesthetized

Answer 3

Put to sleep, numb

Question 4

Plummeting

Answer 4

Declining, falling

Question 5

Quarry

Answer 5

Pit, mine

Question 6

Objectively

Answer 6

Without personal feelings

Question 7

Stationary

Answer 7

Not moving

Question 8

Ricochet

Answer 8

To bounce off

Question 9

Gingerly

Answer 9

Carefully, delicately, easily

Question 10

Converge

Answer 10

Meet, join, unite

Question 11

Simultaneously

Answer 11

Happening at the same time

Question 12

Incriminate

Answer 12

To blame someone

Question 13

Resolve

Answer 13

Determination

Question 14

Convoluted

Answer 14

Complicated

Question 15

Incessantly

Answer 15

Never stopping

Question 16

What is a utopia?

Answer 16

A perfect society that has no problems

Question 17

What is a dystopia?

Answer 17

A society in which it seems perfect on the outside but there are serious underlying problems

Question 18

Metaphor

Answer 18

States something is another thing

Ex: she is a flower blowing in the wind

Question 19

Simile

Answer 19

A comparison using like or as

Ex: he runs as fast as a cheetah

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

When an inanimate object is given human attributes

Ex: the wind howled

Question 21

Onomatopeia

Answer 21

A word that imitates a sound

Ex: beep, ring ring ring, ding

Question 22

Alliteration

Answer 22

When words that have the same first consonant sound are close together in a sentence

Ex: but a better butter makes a batter better

Question 23

Allusion

Answer 23

A reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of significance

Ex: this place is like the garden of Eden

Question 24

Oxymoron

Answer 24

When two opposites are joined

Ex: living death, cruel kindness

Question 25

Hyperbole

Answer 25

An exaggeration

Ex: I’m dying of hunger

Question 26

Idiom

Answer 26

An expression with a double meaning

Ex: she froze, get off my back, you hit the nail on the head, etc

Question 27

Paradox

Answer 27

A contradiction

Ex: your enemy’s friend is your enemy, wise fool, this is the beginning of the end

Question 28

What is a motif?

Answer 28

Reoccurring structures and literary devices that help develop the texts major themes

Question 29

What are some motifs found on F421?

Answer 29

Paradoxes, animal and nature imagery, and religion

Question 30

What does blood symbolize in the book?

Answer 30

Human being’s repressed soul or primal, instinctive self

Question 31

What does the hearth and the salamander symbolize?

Answer 31

The hearth: a home
Salamander: the firemen

The hearth contains fire that heats a home and the salamander because of ancient beliefs that it is unaffected by flames

Question 32

What does the sieve and the sand represent?

Answer 32

The sand is a symbol of the knowledge montage is trying to seek and the sieve is his mind; this metaphor is saying it’s impossible to grasp this knowledge

Question 33

What does the Phoenix represent

Answer 33

The cyclical nature of history and montage spiritual resurrection

Question 34

What do mirrors symbolize ?

Answer 34

Self understanding and seeing oneself clearly

Question 35

What does denhams centrifuge symbolize?

Answer 35

Television entertainment and advertisements take away the intelligent and independent thoughts in a persons mind as if they were impurities, like denhams dental detergent takes away impurities on teeth