1. What is the central image of the first stanza? A. a book refusing to burn B. a book burning by accident C. a book burning from its outermost layers inwards D. the differences between how truth and lies burn 2. According to the speaker.what is more disturbing than book burning? A. empty libraries that towns cannot afford to fill B. wild dogs that keep people from learning C. not bothering to write certain books at all D. people who hate reading books 3. Which of the following best summarizes the theme of this poem? A. Ignorance and a lack of new ideas are greater threats to society than burning books. B. Book burning creates ignorance and chaos in societies; free speech should be encouraged. C. The worst threat of censorship is its ability to erase prominent writers from history. D. We are all quilty of censorship when we reject ideas that do not align with our own. Choose a common theme from the list below that best supports both the poem, and the novel, Fahrenheit 451. In a well-developed paragraph explain how the author uses symbolism and tone to develop the theme of the poem. Cite textual evidence to support your analysis. 1. Books are a controversial and important part of our society and our lives. 2. Our reliance on technology can spiral out of control if we let it. 3. Knowledge is both joyful and painful. __ 4. Which lines from the poem best support the answer to question 3? A. "The cover goes first, then outer leaves curling away, then spine and a scattering" B. "More disturbing/than book ashes are whole libraries that no one I got around to writing" C. "the terrorized countryside where wild dogs / own anything that moves" D. "So I've burned books. And there are many / I haven't even written and nobody has." 5. What does the word "unthought" mean as used in line 13? A. hostility toward censorship B. an inability to read C. acceptance of book-burning D. lack of ideas 6. Which lines from the poem best support the answer to question 5? A. "trying for character / but just faking it" B. "whole libraries that no one / got around to writing" C. "terrorized countryside" D. "where wild dogs I own anything that moves"

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1. What is the central image of the first stanza? A. a book refusing to burn B. a book burning by accident C. a book burning from its outermost layers inwards D. the differences between how truth and lies burn 2. According to the speaker.what is more disturbing than book burning? A. empty libraries that towns cannot afford to fill B. wild dogs that keep people from learning C. not bothering to write certain books at all D. people who hate reading books 3. Which of the following best summarizes the theme of this poem? A. Ignorance and a lack of new ideas are greater threats to society than burning books. B. Book burning creates ignorance and chaos in societies; free speech should be encouraged. C. The worst threat of censorship is its ability to erase prominent writers from history. D. We are all quilty of censorship when we reject ideas that do not align with our own. Choose a common theme from the list below that best supports both the poem, and the novel, Fahrenheit 451. In a well-developed paragraph explain how the author uses symbolism and tone to develop the theme of the poem. Cite textual evidence to support your analysis. 1. Books are a controversial and important part of our society and our lives. 2. Our reliance on technology can spiral out of control if we let it. 3. Knowledge is both joyful and painful. __ 4. Which lines from the poem best support the answer to question 3? A. "The cover goes first, then outer leaves curling away, then spine and a scattering" B. "More disturbing/than book ashes are whole libraries that no one I got around to writing" C. "the terrorized countryside where wild dogs / own anything that moves" D. "So I've burned books. And there are many / I haven't even written and nobody has." 5. What does the word "unthought" mean as used in line 13? A. hostility toward censorship B. an inability to read C. acceptance of book-burning D. lack of ideas 6. Which lines from the poem best support the answer to question 5? A. "trying for character / but just faking it" B. "whole libraries that no one / got around to writing" C. "terrorized countryside" D. "where wild dogs I own anything that moves"

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1. C2. C3. A4. B5. D6. B

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This question set is covering a literary analysis of a poem, possibly coupled with a comparison to the novel "Fahrenheit 451," judging by the structured "Choose a common theme" question. It asks the reader to determine key themes, analyze textual evidence, understand a connotation of a particular vocabulary word, and evaluate imagery and symbolism in the poem. Overall, it requires a strong understanding of critical literary interpretation and vocabulary understanding.1. The answer to this question can be reached by analyzing the different descriptions given in the options and comparing them to the first stanza of the poem to see which form is {\em most} directly depicted. 2. This question needs articulate comprehension and interpretation of the main sentiment expressed by the speaker passing throughout the whole contents of the poem. 3. Universal themes contained in literary texts may range from unpopular like ignorance, chaos, elimination, censorship to guilt, and it's also dependent on our ability as a reader to understand theme implicitly carried by the poem and justify it out of the selected choices through our critical reasoning. 4. Here we associate between the main theme running throughout the poem and main salient imageries supporting this theme from a set of somewhat similar lines handed to us. Based on our takeaway from question 3 as being the main theme of the poem, we make predictions as resonances of which phrases are the closest related to and best withstand the said theme. 5. Assuming we do have diction readiness and an adequate comprehension of suggestive intentions of words in a poem, the depiction of whatever 'unthought’ could harbor in its streamline of presentation within this very line of the poem. 6. Keeping in mind what senses the word 'unthought' emerges, we gauge out from available choices of lines from the poem which fragments connote back or resonate on the prevailing meaning we settle for 'unthought’.

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