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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Faber ask Montag to do on his way home from their first meeting?
(a) Get some rest for the fight ahead
(b) Write out a plan for reproducing books
(c) Withdraw money from his bank account
(d) Spy on the firehouse

2. What does Mrs. Phelps find most interesting about her two children?
(a) The fact that neither of them resemble her physically
(b) The fact that they were both delivered by Cesarean section
(c) The fact that they have different fathers
(d) The fact that they are both Olympic swimmers

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

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

5. According to Faber, what is inevitable?
(a) A mindless society
(b) Death from the coming war
(c) The end of books
(d) Change

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

7. Where is Mrs. Phelps' husband?
(a) In prison
(b) In rehab
(c) Dead
(d) In the military

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

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

10. What does Montag dread doing with the book he’s taken a special interest in?
(a) Reading it
(b) Burning it
(c) Returning it to Beatty
(d) Explaining it to Mildred

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

12. How does Faber help Montag during the confrontation with Beatty?
(a) By punching Beatty in the face
(b) By making prank calls to the firehouse
(c) By telling him how to blackmail Beatty
(d) By whispering advice into his ear

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

14. According to Faber, what don’t people need to be happy?
(a) Books
(b) Love
(c) Government
(d) Religion

15. Who is Mildred entertaining when Montag comes home from Faber’s?
(a) Clarisse
(b) The next-door neighbor
(c) Captain Beatty
(d) Her girlfriends

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem does Montag read during his confrontation with Mildred?

2. According to Faber, what is missing from most people’s lives, causing unhappiness?

3. How does Captain Beatty fit into Montag and Faber’s secret plan?

4. What game does Montag play with his fellow firemen before the confrontation?

5. How does Faber react to Montag’s decision to read the poem aloud?

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