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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Montag think about before he goes to sleep on the night of the accident?
(a) Mildred’s attempted suicide
(b) All that he has lost
(c) Clarisse and her family
(d) His childhood in out in the country

2. What does Montag feel about Clarisse’s death?
(a) Disbelief
(b) Indignant
(c) Indifferent
(d) Happiness

3. When discussing his personal history with Montag, what does Faber call himself?
(a) A fake
(b) A prophet
(c) A rebel
(d) A coward

4. At the beginning of the novel, how does Montag feel about his job?
(a) He feels ashamed to be harming innocent people
(b) He believes he is doing his civic duty
(c) He is proud to have followed in his father's footsteps
(d) He is proud to be considered a hero

5. Who turned the attic book owner over to the authorities?
(a) A schoolteacher
(b) A priest
(c) A stranger
(d) A neighbor

6. What takes up three full walls in the Montag's living room?
(a) Pictures
(b) An abstract painting
(c) The television
(d) Mirrors

7. How does Mildred respond to Montag's story about the book owner's death?
(a) She is devastated
(b) She is amused
(c) She is terrified
(d) She is indifferent

8. How does the mechanical firedog react when it senses an enemy?
(a) It shakes
(b) It growls and barks
(c) It beeps
(d) It whimpers

9. How does Mildred react to the ambulance drivers’ arrival?
(a) She never wakes
(b) She is sad
(c) She is hysterical
(d) She is angry

10. What does Montag search for as he reads through the hidden books?
(a) Religious freedom
(b) A reason for so many lives to be lost
(c) The meaning of life
(d) A connection to Clarisse

11. Who is least affected by the book owner's death?
(a) Montag
(b) Clarisse
(c) Captain Beatty
(d) The neighbor

12. According to Faber, what is the only magical thing in the world?
(a) Friendship
(b) Nothing
(c) Passion
(d) Knowledge

13. What passes overhead that makes Montag feel urgency about his mission to understand?
(a) A shooting star
(b) A white dove
(c) A bomber plane
(d) A helicopter

14. While out with Montag one afternoon, what does Clarisse urge him to taste?
(a) Sassafras root
(b) Imported chocolate
(c) The rain
(d) Her blood

15. Why does Mildred react the way she does to the sound when Montag is reading in the kitchen?
(a) Because she doesn’t want to go to jail
(b) Because she is angry with Montag
(c) Because she is jealous of Clarisse
(d) Because she doesn’t understand the significance of the sound

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mythological symbols are introduced in the first chapter?

2. How does Mildred react to the sound when Montag is reading in the kitchen?

3. How does Faber react to Montag’s initial request?

4. What consumes Mildred's attention all day, the day after the ambulence arrives at their home?

5. Which of the following is NOT something Montag struggles to understand?

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