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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the mechanical firedog react when it senses an enemy?
(a) It growls and barks
(b) It shakes
(c) It whimpers
(d) It beeps

2. What is Guy Montag's main responsibly as a fireman?
(a) To give medical aid
(b) To put out fires
(c) To start fires
(d) To create the work schedules

3. What does Montag think about before he goes to sleep on the night of the accident?
(a) All that he has lost
(b) His childhood in out in the country
(c) Clarisse and her family
(d) Mildred’s attempted suicide

4. What does Montag search for as he reads through the hidden books?
(a) Religious freedom
(b) A connection to Clarisse
(c) The meaning of life
(d) A reason for so many lives to be lost

5. What does Montag beg the attic book owner to do before he burns down her house?
(a) Kill herself to avoid imprisonment
(b) Hide her books
(c) Teach him to read
(d) Abandon her books

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montag believe about the mechanical firedog at work?

2. What takes up three full walls in the Montag's living room?

3. When discussing his personal history with Montag, what does Faber call himself?

4. At what time of day does Montag first meet Clarisse?

5. What has changed about Montag’s life since the character went missing?

(see the answer key)

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