Fahrenheit 451 Study Guide

Multiple Choice

Matching

OPEN BOOK TEST

Make sure you can describe each character in detail!

  1. What are the books that each of the characters is responsible for “being”?
  2. What was the name of the jingle Montag heard on the subway?
  3. How did Faber and Montag meet?
  4. Where did Montag meet Clarisse?
  5. Describe the relationship between Montag and Beatty.
  6. What happens when Montag reads poetry to his wife’s friends?
  7. Which of Clarisse's relatives influenced her the most?
  8. What book was Montag responsible for when he met with the book people?
  9. What is the significance of the title Fahrenheit 451?
  10. What was the occupation of Granger's grandfather?
  11. What are the earplug radios in the novel called?
  12. What animal metaphor does Montag use to describe the stomach pump and blood-replacement machine used on Mildred?
  13. How does Mildred claim Clarisse is killed?
  14. What does the Hound look like?
  15. What makes Clarisse unique?
  16. What job did Faber hold before he retired?
  17. Which drug does the Hound inject into Montag?
  18. In whose home does Montag plant books?
  19. What does Granger's group do before heading for the city after the bombing?
  20. What does Montag follow to reach the Book People in the country?
  21. What happens to the old woman whose house is burned by the firemen?
  22. Where did Montag and Mildred meet?

  1. What is the primary duty of the firemen in the novel?
  2. What is the imposing threat from the world throughout this novel?
  3. What is Captain Beatty’s relationship with books?
  4. What does Granger want to do after the city is destroyed?
  5. Which books of the Bible are referenced in the story?

Be able to identify who said the following:

  • “Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with your books.”
  • “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none”
  • “Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”
  • “It was a pleasure to burn.”
  • “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy”
  • “I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve lots of time for crazy thought, I guess.”
  • “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two-thousand dollars.”
  • “Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.”
  • “I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I’m doing what I should’ve done a lifetime ago.”
  • “We all made the right kind of mistakes or we wouldn’t be here.”
  • “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies”
  • “The Captain’s dead. He found the audio-capsule, he heard your voice, he was going to trace it. I killed him with the flame thrower”