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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mildred react to the ambulance drivers’ arrival?
(a) She is sad
(b) She never wakes
(c) She is hysterical
(d) She is angry

2. How does Montag accidentally frighten Professor Faber?
(a) By asking him to turn himself in
(b) By mentioning Clarisse
(c) By admitting that he’s read War and Peace
(d) By asking him about a book

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

4. What aspect of Mildred’s personality does Montag most resent?
(a) Her coldness
(b) Her obsession
(c) Her religious fervor
(d) Her jealousy

5. Who tells Montag that Clarisse is dead?
(a) Black
(b) Captain Beatty
(c) Mildred
(d) The attic book owner

6. What does Montag feel about Clarisse’s death?
(a) Happiness
(b) Indignant
(c) Disbelief
(d) Indifferent

7. After his night with Clarisse, what shocking sight does Montag return home to?
(a) Mildred angrily awaits his return, a gun in hand
(b) Mildred making love to another man
(c) Mildred overdosed on sleeping pills
(d) His house has burned down

8. What has changed about the ambulance drivers’ schedule in the past two years?
(a) They have been forced into additional training in addition to their scheduled shifts
(b) They have slowed down
(c) They have gotten much busier
(d) They have stayed the same

9. What noise frightens Montag as he reads in his kitchen?
(a) The fire hound barking
(b) A bird singing
(c) A car honking
(d) Clarisse crying

10. What has Mildred been pressuring her husband to do?
(a) Take her to the beach
(b) Go to a fertility specialist
(c) Quit his job
(d) Add television to the fourth wall in the living room

11. What does Montag steal from the attic book owner’s home?
(a) A purse
(b) A book
(c) A photograph
(d) A necklace

12. What does Montag want to find to help him in his quest for knowledge?
(a) A real teacher
(b) A good friend
(c) Another book
(d) A different wife

13. How did Clarisse die?
(a) She was run over by a car
(b) She died in a house fire
(c) She drowned
(d) She was poisoned

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

15. What shocks Montag when he first observes Clarisse's family?
(a) They look nothing like Clarisse
(b) The family sleeps with the lights on and the curtains open
(c) The entire family is awake
(d) The family dresses in rags, though they are rich

Short Answer Questions

1. As Montag listens to Mildred’s conversation with Ann, what does he realize about his wife?

2. What is the general mission of the fire department in the novel?

3. Which of the following characters goes missing, greatly worrying Montag?

4. How does Mildred react to the news that Montag has been hoarding books?

5. What does Clarisse ask Montag after their first meeting, before she goes home?

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