10th Grade English–Bradbury Quiz #5 (pg.92-110)

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I.Vocabulary Development (3 Questions – 1 point each)

  1. Words in Context – Context Clues

Directions: Choose the word or phrase that BEST explains the meaning of the underlined word or phrase.

  1. Beatty’s mind was insidious.
  2. crafty, in a harmful way
  3. intelligent
  4. inside of
  5. empty
  1. The child’s killer was contemptible.
  2. clever
  3. mass murderer
  4. thief
  5. worthy of hatred
  1. The crowd would disperse when the police showed up.
  2. form a mob
  3. turn to violence
  4. scatter
  5. share

II.Reading Comprehension & Literary Analysis

  1. Multiple Choice(6 Questions- 1 point each)

Directions: Carefully read the questions below, then choose the BEST answer for each question. You may return to the text as often as necessary.

  1. What is it about Mildred’s friends that bothers Montag
  2. Their children hate them and they don’t care
  3. They are not worried about their husbands at war
  4. They vote based on how someone looks and not their policies
  5. All of the above
  1. Why does Mrs. Phelps begin to cry?
  2. Somehow the poem touched her deep down
  3. She hates poetry
  4. The poem is a tragedy
  5. She hates Montag
  1. What does Montag do with the book after he reads the poem?
  2. He gives it to Beatty
  3. He lets Mrs. Phelps keep it
  4. He puts it in the incinerator
  5. The Mechanical Hound gets it
  1. How does Beatty act after Montag returns the book?
  2. He is silent about the subject
  3. He continually confuses Montag with quotes from books
  4. He is not at the firehouse
  5. Montag actually forgets the book
  6. In Beatty’s dream he was…
  7. Beating Montag up physically
  8. Using books to prove Montag wrong
  9. Taking Mildred away
  10. Showing Montag the books in his house
  1. With what important event does Part 2 end?
  2. Clarisse reappears
  3. Mildred really does overdose on sleeping pills
  4. The firemen get called to Clarisse’s house
  5. The firemen get called to Montag’s house

B.Short Answer (1 Question- 4 points)

Directions: In his “dream” Beatty claims Montag said these quotes to him. Carefully read the quotes below and translate one of them. What does the quote mean? Why would Montag say these in Beatty’s dream?

1.“A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farthest of the two!”

2. “This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school!”

3.“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force!”

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