F451 Final Review

Who is Faber?

a retired English professor that Montag met at the park

What does Faber wear while riding the subway jets?

earplugs

Montag describes his house as...

empty

In regards to her children, Mrs. Bowles says, "I put up with them when they come home three days a month...You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch. It's just like washing clothes" (96). This is an example of what kind of figurative language?

simile comparing raising children to doing laundry (both viewed as inconvenient chores)

What kind of figurative language does Captain Beatty use in the above quote?

simile: "as an idle wind"

the intellectual men by the river

the Hobos

where Montag hides the books

Bushes

What is not a theme of this book? A. History is important B. Education is important C. Having fun is important D. Interpersonal communication is important

C. Having fun is important

Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty?

Captain Beatty found out about the radio transmitter and threatened to find out who was on the other end

What is different about the fire truck on the way to the call?

Captain Beatty is driving

Montag's neighbor

Clarisse

the "tool" Clarisse uses to determine if Montag is happy

Dandelion

the book Montag memorizes

Ecclesiastes

Montag seeks help from this person

Faber

To Montag, Captain Beatty says, "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm'd so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not!" (119). Cassius is a character in William Shakespeare's drama, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. This is called a(n)...

Allusion (reference to another text)

Montag's boss

Beatty

the item Montag steals from the old lady

Bible

How many books did Montag find in his backyard?

Four

the leader of the people by the river

Granger

After reading the book of poetry, what did Montag do with the book?

He burned it

Guy Montag, "wears his happiness like a mask." This simile means that...

He is hiding his unhappiness

What secret does Montag reveal to his wife after Captain Beatty leaves the house?

His stash of books

the mechanical creature at the fire station

Hound

flew too close to the sun

Icarus

After her sleeping pill overdose, why did technicians treat Mildred instead of emergency room doctors?

Incidents like this are so common that society invented a machine to fix people

What does Montag think happened to the mechanical hound?

It had been programmed to act aggressively toward Montag

What happens to the city at the end?

It is destroyed by the war

Why do Montag and Faber think their plan will work?

It will make society question firefighters and their intentions

According to Montag, what smells like perfume?

Kerosene

Who called in the first alarm for Montag's house?

Mildred's friends

Montag's wife

Millie aka Mildred

This description of books, "While the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and the lawn of the house," is an example of...

Personification

the creature on the firefighters' uniforms

Phoenix

What is Montag and Faber's plan?

Plant books in the houses of firefighters

the fire truck

Salamander

As a firefighter, what does Guy Montag do?

Set fires and burn books; situational irony (the opposite of what we expect firemen to do)

What did the old lady do?

She lit a match and committed suicide (human torch)

What happened to Clarisse?

She was hit by a car

What inference can the audience make about the society they live in when Clarisse says, "I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly?"

The audience can infer that most people drive very quickly

Why does Montag try to cover up his scent?

The mechanical hound is tracking him

What does Faber mean when he says, "There's lots of old Harvard degrees on the tracks between here and Los Angeles?"

There are many educated people who have sought refuge from the city along the train tracks

How do the men by the river preserve literature?

They memorize a book and then burn it

The purpose of the figurative language in Captain Beatty's quote is to...

To compare Montag to the character Cassius in Caesar AND to compare his threats to an "idle wind"

destroys the city

War

What can be inferred about what Mrs. Bowles says about raising children in this society?

Women view child rearing as a burden because the women are busy with their own lives