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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mildred doing when Montag returns home from Faber’s house?
(a) Talking on the telephone
(b) Reading a book
(c) Snooping through his drawers
(d) Watching television

2. What poem does Montag read during his confrontation with Mildred?
(a) Sonnet XVI
(b) Dover Beach
(c) Apple Picking
(d) A Dream Deferred

3. Whose image do advertisers use to sell products?
(a) The Firemen’s
(b) The President’s
(c) No one’s. Images in advertising are banned
(d) Jesus’

4. How does Montag explain his disillusionment with society?
(a) He said the elderly woman made his appreciate life for the first time
(b) He says the words of great philosophers before him have infiltrated his mind
(c) He says that the impending war has caused him to question government
(d) He says it feels as if something is missing

5. How does Beatty treat the stolen book Montag returns?
(a) He shreds it with his bare hands
(b) He forces Montag to burn it then and there
(c) He tosses it unceremoniously in the trash
(d) He reads it aloud to the firehouse, mocking the words

6. What does Montag hear a persistent advertisement for while riding the train?
(a) Denham's Dentifrice
(b) Glueless Gummies
(c) Morlock's Menties
(d) Mildred’s favorite soap opera

7. According to Faber, what is missing from most people’s lives, causing unhappiness?
(a) Love
(b) Education
(c) Fulfilling jobs
(d) Quality

8. The next morning, how does Montag feel about his confrontation with Mildred about the poem?
(a) Proud
(b) Terrified
(c) Ashamed
(d) Guilty

9. What interrupts Montag’s confrontation with Beatty?
(a) The fire alarm sounding
(b) The building exploding
(c) The sounds of sirens wailing
(d) The fire hound barking

10. What did a cousin once bet Montag a dime he couldn’t do?
(a) Walk across fire
(b) Push a rock up a hill
(c) Swallow a sword
(d) Fill a sieve with sand

11. How does Faber react to Montag’s decision to read the poem aloud?
(a) He is confused
(b) He is proud
(c) He is apathetic
(d) He is mortified

12. For what does Faber feel partially responsible?
(a) Montag's discontent
(b) How far the book burning has gone
(c) The elderly woman’s death
(d) Clarisse’s death

13. On Montag’s first day back at work, what does Beatty try to convince him to do?
(a) Confess that he’s stolen the books
(b) Treat his job more enthusiastically
(c) Turn against Faber
(d) Instigate another book burning

14. What game does Montag play with his fellow firemen before the confrontation?
(a) Hopscotch
(b) Checkers
(c) Pool
(d) Cards

15. What effect is reading having on Montag?
(a) He is learning to think for himself
(b) He is falling out of love with his wife
(c) He is becoming confused about the meaning of life
(d) He is becoming angry with the government

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montag dread doing with the book he’s taken a special interest in?

2. What does Faber ask Montag to do on his way home from their first meeting?

3. What does Montag do to finally convince Faber to help him in his quest?

4. What does Faber think books smell like?

5. How does Mildred’s guest react to the poem?

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