113 questions
True or False: The people in the book are worried about the war.
True
False
Who was a homeless author; leader of the book people?
Granger
Faber
Montag
Clarisse
Name the protagonist in Fahrenheit 451 (fireman)
Montag
Mildred
Faber
Clarisse
Name Montag's wife
Mildred
Clarisse
Faber
Beatty
Name Montag’s neighbor who is aware of the past
Clarisse
Mildred
Faber
Beatty
Which character is a former English professor?
Faber
Beatty
Granger
Montag
Which character is a Captain fireman?
Beatty
Montag
Faber
Granger
Who cried when Montag read the poem?
Mrs Phelps
Mrs Bowles
Clarisse
Mildred
A radio that Faber gives Montag (like a walkie talkie) to keep in his ear
Green Bullet
Seashells
The Relatives
What are the ear thimbles / ear seashells / electronic bees for?
They are like earbuds and are used for listening to the radio. (Mildred wears them all the time).
So they can hear the ocean
So Faber and Montag can talk to each other
What does Montag call the wall TVs?
The Relatives
Green Bullet
Seashells
What happened to Clarisse?
She got hit by a car
She got yeeted to the back of the bus
She got killed by global warming
Montag didn’t want to return to work after: _____________
They burned the old woman/she burned herself with her books
Beatty cussed him out
Mildred made him stop going to spend more time with her
They stopped paying him
What did Clarisse focus on and ask Montag about?
"Are you happy?"
"How are you?"
"Have you ever gotten hit by a car?"
Some dystopian traits for Fahrenheit 451 include:
Standout, post-war, technology, propaganda, etc.
Post-apocalyptic, government watches people, etc.
Which type of government control do we see in Fahrenheit 451?
Technological control
Corporate control
Bureaucratic control
True or False: Beatty said Benjamin Franklin was the first fireman.
True
False
People in Fahrenheit 451 live for what?
Fun / pleasure / thrills
Death
Nothing
To run over girls named Clarisse
In the Fahrenheit 451 society, Clarisse is considered “antisocial.” What about her behavior was unusual?
She actually talked to people
She stayed inside doing nothing
What 3 things did Faber say books have that we need in life?
Quality, leisure, the right to carry out actions based on the combination of the first two
Knowledge, information, and a combination of the first two
Vocabulary, enrichment, and a combination
Who turned in the report that Montag had books?
Mildred
Faber
Clarisse
The old lady
Who said: “We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace as I trust shall never be put out.”
The old lady whose house burned
Clarisse
Mildred
Montag
What is the fireman’s symbol?
Salamander
Flame
Paper
Books
During the day Mildred spent time doing what?
Watching the parlor (TV) walls
Reading books
Secretly being a firewoman
What does the mechanical hound represent or symbolize?
Technology can be dangerous to humans
Dogs are scary
Robots will take over the world
Bite marks can last forever
What do the Wall TVs represent?
Technology can distract us.
They predicted large screens
Electronics are good for us
Montag killed ________ with a flame thrower
Beatty
Faber
Granger
The old lady
Who said: “My family is real; they talk to me!”
Mildred
Clarisse
Mrs Phelps
Mrs Bowles
True or False: Montag memorized part of Ecclesiastes
True
False
Who said: “It’s not books that you need; it’s some of the things that were once in books.”
Faber
Montag
Beatty
Granger
Who said: “You must understand our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred.”
Beatty
Montag
Granger
Faber
Who said: “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
Montag
Clarisse
Mildred
Faber
At the end of the Fahrenheit 451, how are books are being preserved?
People are memorizing them
People are making flashcards about them
People are telling each other all of the pages in the books
When Montag visits Faber, Faber calls himself a coward. Why? In what way has he acted cowardly?
He didn’t fight to keep books.
He reported Montag for having books.
Who said: “I didn’t do that...Never in a billion years.”
Mildred
Clarisse
Montag
Faber
Who said: “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?”
Clarisse
Mildred
Beatty
Faber
The purpose of McCarthyism was to expose and eliminate _____________ in America in the 1950s.
Communism
Capitalism
Segregation
Witches
What did the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) do?
Investigated / held trials for those accused of being Communists
Accused people of being communists
They were a group of communists in America
What was the name of the group of people (actors, directors, producers, screenwriters) who were referred to the HUAC and refused to testify? They were then blacklisted...
The Hollywood Ten
The Los Angeles Nine
The Boston Eight
The New York Seven
ways McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials were similar.
No evidence in the trials, ruining peoples' lives
Both included witches and communism
Both took place in the 1600s
Both took place in the 1950s
Arthur Miller wrote a play about the Salem Witch Trials called ________
The Crucible
Romeo and Juliet
Schindler's List
Hamlet
True or False: Men were more likely to be accused of being witches
False
True
Spectral evidence refers to a witness testimony that the accused person's spirit shape appeared to him/her witness in a dream at the time the accused person's physical body was at another location.
True or False: This type of evidence was used during the Salem Witch Trials
True
False
The Salem Witch Trials took place during what time period (1400s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s…?)
1400s
1600s
1700s
1800s
True or False: The Salem Witch Trials impacted the U.S. legal system because “Innocent until proven guilty” was added to as a result.
True
False
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry”
Simile
Metaphor
Alliiteration
Personification
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “Some [books] were missing and he knew that she had started on her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house, stick by stick”
Metaphor
Simile
Idiom
Oxymoron
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed”
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “He stood looking up at the ventilator grill in the wall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down at him now.”
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
What type of figurative language is the following quote? Faber says to Montag, “I’m the Queen Bee, safe in the hive. You will be the drone, the traveling ear.”
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Animalication
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “Every hour so many d@#$ things in the sky! How in the he#$ did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives!”
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.”
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Personification
What type of figurative language is the following quote? “She made the empty rooms roar with accusation…”
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
Which type of figurative language is this: “Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor.”
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Which type of figurative language is this: “...his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine…”
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Which type of figurative language is this: “...his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine…”
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Repitition
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: “Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click. Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There…Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!”
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Idiom
Alliteration
Identify the 2 types of figurative language: “All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Identify the 3 types of figurative language: “And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry. For it would be the dying of an unknown… and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.”
Metaphor
Irony
Repitition
Simile
Alliteration
Identify the 2 literary devices: “Denham’s Dentifrice; they toil not, neither do they spin”
Alliteration
Allusion
Irony
Hyperbole
Metaphor
What device is repeated twice in this quote: “Mildred stood over his bed…the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.”
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Irony
Identify the type of figurative language: “She was a time bomb.”
Metaphor
Allusion
Irony
Alliteration
Which two literary devices are in this quote: “…and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds…”
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Irony
Which two literary devices are in this quote: “He fell into his bed and his wife cried out, startled. He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea.”
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Allusion
Personification
What country is Malala Yousafzai from?
Pakistan
England
India
Iran
What group shot Malala on the school bus?
The Taliban
ISIS
Indian Soldiers
Al Qaeda
Why was Malala shot?
Because she stood up for rights of education
Because she crashed the bus
Because she told the Taliban that India was better.
What region was Malala from?
Swat Valley
Kashmir
Himalayas
Malala is known to be a strong believer in ________
All children deserve a quality education
Pakistan > India
Gun rights
What did Malala win for her accomplishments in trying to give all children access to a quality education?
Nobel Peace Prize
Golden Globe
Oscar
Grammy
Who is up in the tree with Finny when he falls out?
Gene
Leper
Brinker
Chet
What is the name of the school that Gene attended?
Devon School
New Hampshire Academy
Vermont ROTC
Who is the first of the boys to enlist in the war?
Leper
Gene
Brinker
Quackenbush
What happens to Finny when he falls out of the tree?
He breaks his leg
He pulls his hamstring
He dies
Who wrote "I AM AT CHRISTMAS LOCATION"?
Finny
Leper
Brinker
Gene
Who is the doctor that performed the operation on Finny's leg after reinjury?
Dr. Stanpole
Dr. Lepellier
Dr. Douglass
What is the name of the club that Gene and Finny create?
Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
Superly Superb Society of the Summer
Super Suicide Society of Summer Schoolboys
Suicide Society of the Super Summer Session
How did Finny die during the operation on his leg?
Bone marrow escaped to his bloodstream and made his heart stop beating.
His bone poked his veins and stopped all of his blood from moving
His leg had to be amputated because it couldn't be fixed
Who is the author of The Tipping Point?
Malcolm Gladwell
John Knowles
Ray Bradbury
George Orwell
What are the three laws of a tipping point in epidemics?
The Law of the Few
The Stickiness Factor
The Power of Context
The Law of Interaction
The Law of Trends
Which of these is NOT a strategy in the Stickiness Factor?
Gold Box
Repition
Interaction
The Distractor
Complexity
Where did the Hush Puppies epidemic have its tipping point?
Lower Manhattan
Brooklyn
Boston
Chicago
What are the three archetypes of people described in The Tipping Point?
Connector
Maven
Salesman
Epidemic
Trend-Setter
has the information and knowledge to start an epidemic
Maven
Connector
Salesman
Spreads the idea in the epidemic; very social
Maven
Connector
Salesman
Very persuasive and convincing
Maven
Connector
Salesman
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