Fahrenheit 451 - Quiz #2 pgs. 28-45

What physical qualities does Montag realize all firemen have? (select multiple answers)

• black hair

• fiery face

• a shaved but unshaved look

• blue eyes

• muscular physique

When Montag says they "fixed" a man's library, what does he mean?

• They destroyed it.

• They helped him alphabetize it by author name.

• They fixed the broken shelves.

• They took all his books away.

What did Montag do that could get him in trouble?

• stole a book

• killed a woman

• shot the mechanical hound

• saved a woman from a fire

Montag is starting to think more like who?

• Clarisse

• Mildred

• Captain Beaty

• his father

What is different about the situation Montag and the rest of the firemen find themselves in when they respond to the fire alarm?

• This time the owner of the books hasn't been taken away by the police.

• This time the house hasn't been sealed off from the public.

• This time Montag and the rest of the firemen are allowed to take a book home with them.

• This time a civilian (Clarisse) gets to go with them to the scene.

The woman with all the books...

• commits suicide

• tries to run away with some books

• is killed by the mechanical hound

• goes with the police willingly

Read the following quote: "His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms. He could feel the poison working up his wrists and into his elbows and his shoulders, and then the jump-over from shoulder blade to shoulder blade like a spark leaping a gap."

What "infection" is it talking about?

• The book that he brought home.

• The guilt he feels over the woman's death.

• The fear that he has lost Clarisse.

• The fear that he has lost Mildred.

Montag and Mildred can't remember...

• When and where they first met.

• When their anniversary is.

• Where their mechanical hound has run off to.

• Where Clarisse is.

What does Montag believe has come between him and Mildred?

• The three parlor walls.

• His job as a fireman.

• Her friends.

• The fact that they don't have any children.

Montag finds out from Mildred that... (select ALL the correct answers)

• Clarisse's family moved away.

• Clarisse is dead.

• He has been fired from his job.

• She has decided to get a job.

• Clarisse came looking for him.