Fahrenheit 451 - Multiple Choices and True/False

Question 1

True/False
Before meeting Clarisse, Montag enjoyed being a firemen.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True/False
The people of Montag’s time are unconcerned about war.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True/False
Mildred knows that she is unhappy; it’s why she attempted suicide.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True/False
Faber believed the solution to the world’s problems is found only in books

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True/False
Clarisse is jailed by the authorities for her beliefs.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True/False
Montag’s father and grandfather were firemen

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True/False
Montag’ said that John F. Kennedy, Jr. was the first fireman.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True/False
The rules of his society encourage tolerance for individual differences.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

MC (multiple choice)
What is anti-social?

Answer 9

Book; behavior that deviates from the norm of the society, such as engaging in independent thought, spending time alone, or enjoying nature.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

d. All of the above

Question 11

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?

Answer 11

c. Are you happy?

Question 12

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;

Answer 12

b. Quality of information, leisure, and the right to act

Question 13

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

Answer 13

c. Some deaths are necessary to spark actions for the sake of freethinking.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

d. Warn today’s people about where their faults could lead in the future

Question 15

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

Answer 15

a. To cause Montag to question the values of his society

Question 16

MC
Beatty’s main purpose in the novel is;
Missing options

Answer 16

To act as a foil to Montag’s character, embodying the oppressive forces of the society, and to challenge Montag’s thoughts on rebellion.

Question 17

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

Answer 17

c. Reassure Montag’s ideas for change are correct

Question 18

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

Answer 18

The phoenix will rise

Question 19

symbols
Books
a. Danger
b. Sources of sorrow
d. Lost of freedoms
c. All of the above

Answer 19

c. All of the above

Question 20

symbols
Fire
a. Ignorance
b. Destruction of responsibility
c. Cleansing from a previous life
d. All of the above

Answer 20

d. All of the above

Question 21

Symbols
Mechanical hound
a. Computers in general
b. Man’s best friend
c. The threat of technology
d. All of the above

Answer 21

c. The threat of technology

Question 22

Symbols
Parlor walls
a. Mind-numbing technological entertainment
b. Replacement for family
c. Freedom of speech
d. Both a and b

Answer 22

d. Both a and b

Question 23

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

Answer 23

b. Need to reflect

Question 24

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

Answer 24

c. Both a and b

Question 25

Symbols The sand and the sieve a. Ignorance and knowledge b. Love and people c. Memory and the elusiveness of truth d. all

Answer 25

c. Memory and the elusiveness of truth

Question 26

Symbols Rain a. love and laughter b. truth and knowledge c. Love and people d. none of the above

Answer 26

b. truth and knowledge

Question 27

Symbols War a. Destruction of society b. inner and outer conflict c. both a and b d. Neither a nor b

Answer 27

c. both a and b

Question 28

Symbols Clarisse a. light of truth b. antisocial behavior c. fear. d. love

Answer 28

a. light of truth

Question 29

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"

Answer 29

Beatty

Question 30

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"

Answer 30

Faber

Question 31

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."

Answer 31

Mrs. Bowles

Question 32

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.."

Answer 32

Granger

Question 33

"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..."

Answer 33

Granger

Question 34

quotes "What are you talking about" My family is real. They talk to me!"

Answer 34

Mildred

Question 35

Quotes "Have you ever noticed how rain tastes like wine?"

Answer 35

Clarisse

Question 36

Quotes "It's not a book you need; It's some of the things that were once in books."

Answer 36

Faber

Question 37

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?

Answer 37

Montag