Q 01/05

In Fahrenheit 451, why are firemen no longer needed to put out fires?

A) Houses are fireproof

B) Robots fight the fires

C) Rain is made to order

D) Sprinklers line every street

Answer · why

A) Houses are fireproof

Houses are fireproof. Once every home had been fireproofed, the novel explains, the firemen were handed a new job: starting fires instead of putting t...

Q 02/05

What is the first name of Montag, the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451?

A) Ray

B) Guy

C) Sam

D) Tom

Answer · why

B) Guy

Guy. He opens the novel finding it 'a pleasure to burn' and ends it a hunted man trying to keep a book alive in his own memory.

Q 03/05

According to the novel's title page, 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which what happens?

A) Book paper catches fire

B) Kerosene ignites

C) Steel begins to melt

D) A human body burns

Answer · why

A) Book paper catches fire

Book paper catches fire, and burns, runs the line on the title page. Montag wears the number on his helmet, and it marks the tanks from which the fire...

Q 04/05

Bradbury long refused to allow Fahrenheit 451 in which format?

A) Audiobook

B) Graphic novel

C) E-book

D) Radio play

Answer · why

C) E-book

E-book. Bradbury said e-books 'smell like burned fuel', and he gave way only in 2011, aged 91, when his publisher would not renew the contract without...

Q 05/05

Fahrenheit 451 grew out of which 1951 novella Bradbury published in Galaxy Science Fiction?

A) The Fireman

B) Bright Phoenix

C) The Pedestrian

D) A Pleasure to Burn

Answer · why

A) The Fireman

The Fireman. Galaxy ran the novella in February 1951, and two years later Bradbury doubled its length into a novel for Ballantine Books.