Fahrenheit 451
Questions pp. 35 -50; 51-68
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English 9-2
pp. 35-50
1. List the 5 rules that the firemen must follow:
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2a. Explain how Mrs. Blake “spoiling the ritual.”
2b. A) Why doesn’t she leave with the men? B) How does she ensure this?
3. Hugh Latimer was famous as a preacher. He was Bishop of Worcester
(pronounced WOOS-ter) in the time of King Henry (1500’s) but resigned in protest
against the King's refusal to allow the Protestant reforms that Latimer desired.
Latimer's sermons speak little of doctrine; he preferred to urge men to upright
living and devoutness in prayer. But when Mary came to the throne, he was
arrested, tried for heresy, and burned together with his friend Nicholas Ridley.
His last words at the stake are well known: "Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and
play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God'
grace shall never be put out." How does this ALLUSION connect to Fahrenheit
451?
4. Why are Montag’s hands “ravenous” and his eyes “beginning to feel hunger, as if
they must look at something?”
5. A) Montage asks “How do you get so empty?” B) What do you think he means by
this? Provide examples from the novel to support your point.
6. Who do you think the “uncles and the aunts” are?
7. What does Mildred say happened to Clarisse?
8. A) What is Mildred’s reaction to Guy’s news that a woman was burned with her
books last night? B) Why is this significant?
pp. 51-60
1. A) What does Guy tell Mildred he may do (regarding his job)? B) Why? C)
What does he say he realized last night at the fire?
2. Why does Guy suddenly “shut up” and look away?
3. Beatty tells Guy the history of the fire department. When did the department
begin?
4. What does he tell Guy about books and what has happened to them over time?
5. Beatty tells Guy that burning books did not come as a result of a government
order of dictum. A) Who or what “carried the trick?” B) How is this so? Explain
(carefully read these pages!).
6. A) What does Beatty tell Montag about Clarisse? B) What does he reveal about
the McClellan family?
7. Locate a quote on page 61 that you feel sums up the society in which Montage
lives (**USE quotation marks**)
8. A) What does Beatty tell Montag that books say? B) Do you agree with him? C)
Why or why not?
9. How do homes with flat fronts differ from homes with front porches?
10. Montag tells Mildred that he is not happy. He also tells her he plans to do
something ______.
11. A) What does he finally reveal to Mildred (bottom of 65 to top of 66)? B) How
does Mildred react?
12. Beatty comes to the door. A) Why do you think he came back? B) Why do you
think he leaves? Explain.
13. Another allusion appears at the end of Part I. When Guy speaks of people
dying because they do not break their eggs from a particular end, he is reading
from Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift. What connection can be made to
Fahrenheit 451? (**Consult your Terms to Know handout***)