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4. What event spurred on Montag’s mysterious illness?
Watching a woman burn with her books

5. Give at least three physical characteristics of the Hound
8 spider-like legs, many eyes, holds the chemical balance of many people, storage batteries, syringe that comes out of the nose

6. When and where did Montag originally meet Faber?
They started chasing an innocent person to have a quick grand finale after they lost Montag’s scent at the river.

7. Approximately how many books did Montag collect before he decided to actually read one?
It is the temperature at which books burn.

8. Why is the reader unsure of what really happened to Clarisse?
A quotation at the beginning of a novel that sets the theme of the book

9. To what does the title of this section refer?
When Montag’s cousin offered him money to fill a sieve with sand and he couldn’t do it because it all leaked out and he feels his brain is doing the same with the information.

10. What are the three things Faber says are missing?
Quality of information, leisure to digest the information, and the ability to carry out actions based on the findings of the first two.

11. Who comes up with the idea of framing firemen for having books?
Faber

12. How does Montag convince Faber to help him?
Montag begins tearing out pages of the bible

13. How does part II end with foreshadowing?
They stop in front of Montag’s house

14. How many books did Montag have when he left his house while it was burning?4

15. Why did the police stop chasing Montag?
When they lost the scent, they killed a scapegoat and then figured he was of no real threat anymore.

16. Why is it important that the men by the river were not pedants?
They do not influence people as to what to think about the information, they just preserve the information itself.

17. About what time did the bomb hit the city and how is that important to Montag?
5:00 which is the time Faber was supposed to be leaving the city

18. Why do the men by the river burn books?
They do not want there to be a reason for the law to come looking for them

19. Name the protagonist and the antagonist.
Protagonist = Montag
Antagonist = society / Captain Beatty

20. What Greek myth is alluded to by Beatty in part III?
Daedalus and Icarus

21. What’s an epigraph?
The quotation at the beginning of a novel that sets the theme of the book

22. Name the catalyst for Montag’s changes.
Clarisse

23. What is ironic about the relationship of the men by the river and books?
They love books but they burn them

24. Explain the significance of “The difference between the man who just cuts the lawns and a real gardener is in the touching ”
Granger says this to explain to Montag that he is not bothered by Millie’s death because of the fact that she did not have a personal effect on him. She did not touch him because like with many in that society, she did not have an individual personality.

25. Explain the significance of “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
This epigraph makes you think that you should not just blindly follow along with the expectations of society.

26. Explain the significance of “
Explain the significance of “. . . that’s the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged that he gives up doing it all over again ”
Granger says this to Montag because he is saying that mankind will continue to fight for what they think is right even if he does not succeed the first time.

27. Explain the significance of “You are wise already.”
Faber says this to Montag when Montag asks how doing what Faber says is any different from following along with what the government was saying.

28. Explain the significance of “But even when we had the books on hand
Explain the significance of “But even when we had the books on hand we didn’t use what we got out of them.”
Granger says this to Montag because he is saying the copying of the books is not going to get men to a better place in and of itself. People became lazy and didn’t want to think and it is that which they need to get back and not just the books themselves.

29. Who started the Red Scare?
Joseph McCarthy

30. In what point of view is the story written?
Third person, limited

31. What historical event prompted Bradbury to write this futuristic warning?
The Red Scare or McCarthyism

32. Name the bird that would burn and then rise again from the ashes.
Phoenix

33. How does McCarthyism tie into the book?
During McCarthyism, people were afraid to have their own opinions. IN the novel, everyone acted alike and those who did not were punished as were those who were accused of being Communists.

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