1. Page 51
Make an inference- “Beatty puffed his pipe. ‘Every fireman, sooner or later, hits this.’”
Why would Mildred fidget?
Page 52
What does this mean, “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more”?
Give me a trait for Mildred and prove it.
Give me a trait for Montag and prove it.

2. Page 53
Find an example and make a connection to our society today.
What is the significance of the word “melancholy” being used throughout the novel?
Why would Mildred’s hand be frozen behind the pillow?
Page 54
What does this mean, “The mind drinks less and less”?
Why would Mildred slam the door?
What current term might you give to the last paragraph?

3. Page 55 What does “vanilla tapioca” mean?
Who/What is responsible for people not thinking anymore?
Why would the word “intellectual” have a negative connotation?
Page 56
What does that mean that the firemen were now “custodians of our peace of mind”?
According to Beatty, what do people want?

4. Page 57
How will one gain “serenity” and “peace” according to Captain Beatty?
What is the metaphor used to describe Clarisse McClellan? Significance?
Page 58
What makes man feel brilliant according to Beatty?
“That way lies melancholy”- what way?
Page 59
What does Beatty mean when he says, “We have our fingers in the dike”?
Why would Beatty say that “You come away lost”?
Literary Device: “The open door looked at him with its great vacant eye.” Significance?

5. Page 60 Why would Montag think, “I’ll never come in again”?
What was the “wrong kind of social life”?
What does that mean, “Get people up and running around”?
Page 61
Why is Montag so upset?
Predict: Why does Montag say, “I want to hold onto this funny thing”?
Page 62
Why would Mildred say, “I am tired of listening to this junk”? What does she mean by the term junk?
Literary Device: “like a statue on a pedestal”? Significance?

6. Page 63
What has been hidden in the ventilator?
How does Mildred feel about being “in this together”?
Why does Montag “want to look at them at least once”?
What does he mean by “We’re heading right for a cliff”?
Page 64
Why would mean like Beatty be afraid of her?
Why would Montag say, “And I thought it might be best if the firemen themselves were burnt”?

7. Page 65
Who is at the door?
What do we learn about Mildred when she says, “It doesn’t mean anything. The Captain was right”?
What do we learn about Montag, “Here now…, at the beginning”?