Pre-AP Unit 1 Test Review Using Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 1-18 - At Home Practice

Montag to tell his own perspective on things.

the narrator to explain why Mildred overdosed on sleeping pills.

the narrator to show what Montag thinks about the people and events around him

the narrator to express how Clarisse is a deep-thinker.

being without an internal cavity

having or expressing little or no emotion

solid and well put together

of or relating to a shape

Their encounter is to show the fear that even normal people in this society have of the firemen.

Clarisse is the source of Montag's questioning about the life that he is leading.

Montag will fall in love with Clarisse.

Their encounter is symbolic of true happiness.

"Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames." He laughed.

They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and realized this was quite impossible, so late in the year.

They walked on again in silence and finally she said, thoughtfully, "You know, I'm not afraid of you at all." He was surprised. "Why should you be?"

He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.

likes to have her own way.

has an energy about her that is angelic yet strong.

is unaware of her surroundings.

has an immaturity about her that is shown in the way that she plays with the leaves.

Children are not aware of the effects that technology have on our lives.

It is better to be with someone else than it is to be alone.

Darkness and loneliness go hand-in-hand.

There are pleasures in life that come from simplicity.

Bradbury uses this excerpt to show that this was the moment when Montag decided to become a fireman.

Bradbury uses this memory to foreshadow how the meaning of this past experience may come into play later on in the story.

Bradbury uses this excerpt to show that Montag still thinks like a child.

Bradbury uses this flashback to show that Montag had a close relationship with his mother.

The machine operators were not sympathetic to what Montag was going through with his wife.

Montag walks home thinking "little about nothing at all".

Clarisse asks him if he is happy.

Montag discovers that his wife took a full bottle of sleeping pills.

Nobody knows anyone.

He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be thought as he stood shivering in the dark, and let his lips go on moving and moving.

As he stood there the sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Montag was cut in half. He felt his chest chopped down and split apart.

He still did not want outside light. He pulled out his igniter, felt the salamander etched on its silver disc, gave it a flick....

"What? Did we have a wild party or something? Feel like I've a hangover. God, I'm hungry. Who was here?" "A few people," he said. "That's what I thought." She chewed her toast. "Sore stomach, but I'm hungry as all-get-out. Hope I didn't do anything foolish at the party." "No," he said, quietly.

In the late afternoon it rained and the entire world was dark grey. He stood in the hall of his house, putting on his badge with the orange salamander burning across it. He stood looking up at the air-conditioning vent in the hall for a long time.

"Yes," he said. "I wanted to talk to you." He paused. "You took all the pills in your bottle last night." "Oh, I wouldn't do that," she said, surprised. "The bottle was empty." "I wouldn't do a thing like that. Why would I do a thing like that?" she asked. "Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you." "Heck," she said, "what would I want to go and do a silly thing like that for?"

She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away. She looked up suddenly, saw him, and nodded. "You all right?" he asked. She was an expert at lip-reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles. She nodded again. She set the toaster clicking away at another piece of bread. Montag sat down. His wife said, "I don't know why I should be so hungry." "You-?" "I'm HUNGRY." "Last night," he began. "Didn't sleep well. Feel terrible," she said. "God, I'm hungry. I can't figure it." "Last night-" he said again. She watched his lips casually. "What about last night?"