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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) Snooping through his drawers
(b) Reading a book
(c) Watching television
(d) Talking on the telephone

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

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

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

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

6. What does Montag do to finally convince Faber to help him in his quest?
(a) He tears pages out of the book
(b) He brings out a can of kerosene
(c) He threatens Faber
(d) He threatens to kill himself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montag hear a persistent advertisement for while riding the train?

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

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

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

5. According to Faber, what is inevitable?

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