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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) Fill a sieve with sand
(d) Swallow a sword

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

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

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

9. Whose house is scheduled to be burned at the end of Part Two?
(a) Clarissa’s
(b) Montag’s
(c) Beatty’s
(d) Faber's

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Faber feel partially responsible?

2. What effect is reading having on Montag?

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

4. According to Faber, what is inevitable?

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

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