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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. For what do Montag and Faber devise a plan during their first meeting?
(a) Escaping their society
(b) Finding Clarisse
(c) Creating a library
(d) Montag's education

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

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

7. What did Faber invent for secret communication?
(a) An electronic reader
(b) A code tapping system
(c) A listening ear bud
(d) A recording devise

8. How does Mildred’s guest react to the poem?
(a) By fainting
(b) By demanding that Montag be quiet
(c) By slapping Montag
(d) By bursting into tears

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

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

11. How does Captain Beatty fit into Montag and Faber’s secret plan?
(a) They want to kill him
(b) They want to learn more about him
(c) They want to recruit him
(d) They want him to be their leader

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

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

14. What does Faber think books smell like?
(a) Coriander
(b) Curry
(c) Nutmeg
(d) Ginger

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Book does Montag take a special interest in and bring to Faber’s house?

2. According to Faber, what don’t people need to be happy?

3. What did a cousin once bet Montag a dime he couldn’t do?

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

5. Whose house is scheduled to be burned at the end of Part Two?

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