Fahrenheit 451 Section 2 Practice Questions

How did the firemen know which houses had books?

• The books all had a bar code that could be read for up to a mile away by a special computerized disk.

• Neighbors, family members, and friends became informants, and telephoned the authorities.

• They conducted random searches.

• The fire dogs sniffed them out.

What lie did Captain Beatty tell Montag?

• He told Montag that authors had never been appreciated; indeed, they had always been regarded as outcasts.

• He told Montag that women were too delicate to be firemen.

• He told Montag that firemen had never been used to prevent fires, only start them.

• He told Montag that he (Montag) was next in line for a promotion at work.

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What did Montag do in the old lady's attic?

• He took a book.

• He sat and cried.

• He destroyed all of her old photographs.

• He took a nap.

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What did the old woman do?

• She locked herself in her apartment and refused to watch.

• She lit the match and used it to commit suicide.

• She danced and threw more books into the blazing fire.

• She dressed in black, knelt before the fire, and cried.

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Who does Mildred say is her family?

• Clarisse and her family next door

• The characters on the parlor walls

• Her sister she visited to watch the parlor walls

• Captain Beatty

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What happened to Clarisse?

• She was brainwashed and forced to change her thinking.

• She was attacked by the mechanical hound.

• She was hit by a car.

• She was kidnapped.

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What did Captain Beatty believe?

• He believed that all people should be masters of their own destinies.

• He believed that books put upsetting thoughts in people's minds and kept them from being happy and satisfied.

• He believed that firemen should be the highest paid workers because they were doing the most important job in society.

• He believed that the world was about to end because of all of the greed and corruption.

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What is the "itch" that Captain Beatty tells Montag that all firemen experience sooner or later?

• A rash from the uniforms

• The desire to become a fire captain

• The curiosity about what is in books

• The desire to move to another city

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What would happen if Captain Beatty thought Montag had kept a book?

• Montag would sit and cry.

• Captain Beatty would fire him from his job.

• Captain Beatty would come burn down his house.

• Captain Beatty would borrow the book and read it.

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What did Montag do after the captain had left the house?

• He sat and cried.

• He disinfected everything the captain had touched.

• He went for a long walk.

• He showed Mildred all the books he had been hiding.

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