Q 01/05

In the society of Fahrenheit 451, what do 'firemen' do?

A) Put out fires

B) Guard the parlour walls

C) Burn books

D) Police the highways

Answer · why

C) Burn books

Books have been outlawed, and the firemen destroy any that are found.

Q 02/05

What is the first name of Montag, the novel's protagonist?

A) Ray

B) Guy

C) Sam

D) Tom

Answer · why

B) Guy

He starts loyal to the system, becomes disillusioned, and ends by helping to preserve the books he once burned.

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

Studies actually put paper's autoignition point anywhere from 424 to 475 °F depending on the paper.

Q 04/05

In what year was Fahrenheit 451 first published?

A) 1957

B) 1961

C) 1953

D) 1965

Answer · why

C) 1953

Bradbury finished the manuscript that year during the Second Red Scare; Ballantine issued it as a paperback in October.

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

An editor at Ballantine, Stanley Kauffmann, urged him to double it into a full novel.