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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Faber help Montag during the confrontation with Beatty?
(a) By punching Beatty in the face
(b) By making prank calls to the firehouse
(c) By telling him how to blackmail Beatty
(d) By whispering advice into his ear

3. Where is Mrs. Phelps' husband?
(a) Dead
(b) In prison
(c) In rehab
(d) In the military

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

5. What interrupts Montag’s confrontation with Beatty?
(a) The fire hound barking
(b) The building exploding
(c) The fire alarm sounding
(d) The sounds of sirens wailing

6. 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 becoming angry with the government
(d) He is learning to think for himself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. According to Faber, what is inevitable?
(a) A mindless society
(b) The end of books
(c) Change
(d) Death from the coming war

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Faber think books smell like?

2. What does Mrs. Phelps find most interesting about her two children?

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

4. The next morning, how does Montag feel about his confrontation with Mildred about the poem?

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

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