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Fahrenheit 451 Applied Practice Questions for the beginning of Part 3
Read the passage from “Burning Bright” of Fahrenheit 451 which begins “Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully” and ends “Blackout. Silence. Darkness” carefully before you choose your answers.
- Questions:
- Montag is most powerfully affected by fire
- Answer choices:
- intensity
- destructiveness
- capriciousness
- duality
- unpredictability
- The paragraph which begins “How long he stood” contains all of the following EXCEPT
- hyperbole
- metaphor
- onomatopoeia
- sensory imagery
- From the two paragraphs which begin “There was a silence” and “And then voices began,” it can be inferred that the society from which Montag came is characterized by its
- uncomfortable silences
- philosophical discussions
- mindless chatter
- constant bickering
- curiosity about the world
- Granger’s first words and actions are characterized by
- trepidation
- civility
- irony
- pretense
- joviality
- The police decide to chase a scapegoat because
- They think this will force Montag to turn himself in
- Their commanding officers will not accept failure
- The scapegoat actually poses a greater threat than Montag does
- They know the Hound has the need to capture a victim
- They want to sustain the attention of their viewing audience