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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Phelps find most interesting about her two children?
(a) The fact that they were both delivered by Cesarean section
(b) The fact that they have different fathers
(c) The fact that neither of them resemble her physically
(d) The fact that they are both Olympic swimmers

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Faber invent for secret communication?
(a) An electronic reader
(b) A listening ear bud
(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 to kill him
(b) They want to learn more about him
(c) They want to recruit him
(d) They want him to be their leader

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

10. What did a cousin once bet Montag a dime he couldn’t do?
(a) Swallow a sword
(b) Push a rock up a hill
(c) Fill a sieve with sand
(d) Walk across fire

11. Which Book does Montag take a special interest in and bring to Faber’s house?
(a) An American History textbook
(b) War and Peace
(c) The Bible
(d) Romeo and Juliet

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts Montag’s confrontation with Beatty?

2. How does Montag explain his disillusionment with society?

3. According to Faber, what is inevitable?

4. How does Beatty treat the stolen book Montag returns?

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

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