QuizMe

1: What book by Shakespeare is this quote referring to: “There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass by me as in idle wind, which I respect not!” (113)”?

Macbeth

Julius Caesar

A Midsummer Nights Dream

Romeo and Juliet

2: Who was this quote referring to: “Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin” (32)?

An author

An actor

One of the United States founding fathers

US Predident

3: What event does this quote reference: “’Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I must shall never be put out’” (33)?

As Latimer was being arrested he shouted this at Ridley

The signing of the Declaration of Independece

Latimer said this to a man named Nicholas Ridley,right before they were hung

Latimer said this to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt on the stake in Oxford.

4: As in the quote: “’Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it” (57), what are the two allusions to?

controversial songs

controversial poems

controversial books

controversial pictures

5: What does Guy Montag's name allude to?

A German word for fireman

The German word for Monday

The temperature at which paper burns

The French word for Monday

6: What latin word does Clarisse McClellan's name alude to?

Clarity

Citizen

Circus

7: “Shut up, thought Montag. Consider the lilies of the field” (Bradbury 74)- What allusion is this?

A famous book title

A Bible Verse

A historical event

A Poem

8: What region did the myth aluded to by the folowing quote refer to? “We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady” (Bradbury 59)

English

Swiss

German

Dutch

9: Who said "That favorite subject, Myself", in their work?

Plato

William Shakespeare

James Boswell

Thomas Jefferson

10: What is an allusion?

a type of imagery

a character description

a casual reference

a ryming sequence