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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of Clarisse’s personality takes Montag aback?
(a) Her confidence
(b) Her candidness
(c) Her innocence
(d) Her cruelty

2. What does Faber believe television has done to Jesus' image?
(a) Preserved it as holy
(b) Deadened it
(c) Made it political
(d) Turned it into a parlor act

3. Which mythological symbols are introduced in the first chapter?
(a) A salamander and a phoenix
(b) A phoenix and a sphinx
(c) A salamander and a sphinx
(d) A sphinx and a gargoyle

4. If Montag wants to talk to Faber, what does he realize he must do?
(a) Turn himself in to the police
(b) Wear a disguise
(c) Take a train to Faber's house
(d) Leave his wife

5. What does Montag beg the attic book owner to do before he burns down her house?
(a) Kill herself to avoid imprisonment
(b) Hide her books
(c) Abandon her books
(d) Teach him to read

Short Answer Questions

1. What passes overhead that makes Montag feel urgency about his mission to understand?

2. Why is Montag so desperate to understand the books?

3. What has changed about the ambulance drivers’ schedule in the past two years?

4. How does Faber feel about the Bible?

5. What conclusion does Clarisse come to when checking whether Montag is in love?

(see the answer key)

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