Fahrenheit 451 Test!Name: _____________________________

Section one: Simile or metaphor, explain the comparison! (4 points each)

  1. The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

  1. Montag stood with the flamethrower in his limp hands, great islands of perspiration drenching his armpits, his face smeared with soot.

Section two:Vocab, match the words on the left to their definition. (1 point each)
 
  1. ____hypnotize 
  2. ____obligate
  3. ____contaminate
  4. ____distill
  5. ____linguist
  6. ____writhe
  7. ____insidious
  8. ____wary
  9. ____disposal
  10. ____devour
a)Spell binding

b)Purify

c)Alert

d)Someone who speaks many languages

e)Ravage

f)Working to spread harm

g)To stain or sully

h)The act of getting rid of something

i)Commit

j)Squirm about

k)To make brighter

Section three:Short Answer, at least two sentences in length!! (5 points each) Click the following link to view the rubric used for these questions: Short answer rubric

  1. What is the external conflict associated with Clarisse? 

  1. What is significant about the salamander patch on Montag’s shoulder? Explain.

  1. What does Granger give Montag to drink when he first gets to the camp? Why would he give this to him? 

  1. What is the definition of kerosene? What is kerosene to Montag? Why does he become sick from its smell?

  1. Explain the details of the fire in 11 North Elm St. Who was involved and what was the outcome?

  1. What are the differences between Mildred and Clarisse? Provide this information by means of two separate lists comparing their differences. There should be at lest five points for each character.

  1. Where do Montage and Mildred first meet? When does Montag remember?

  1. How does this quote from the introductory pages of the novel relate to story? “Fahrenheit 451- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns…”

Section four: Essay: Choose one of these essays to answer. Make sure you brainstorm before writing the essay! I want to see this pre-writing, webbing. Write your essay on the back of this page.  Click the following link to view the rubric used for grading the essay questions: Essay Question rubric

(30 points)

  1. What does the phoenix symbolize at the beginning of the novel? What does it symbolize at the end of the novel? Reread the passage below before writing your answer.
“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up.He must have been first cousin to man.But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again.And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.”
  1. What is so significant about this quote from the novel? What must Montag and his companions do according to this passage? 
“And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves were for the healing of the nations.”

 
 
 

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