Fahrenheit 451 study guide - part 2
Fahrenheit 451 study guide - part 2
Fahrenheit 451 study guide - part 2
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English II – <strong>Fahrenheit</strong> <strong>451</strong> Name: __________________<br />
Study Guide – Part 2<br />
“Clarisse’s favorite subject wasn’t _______.”<br />
How does Mildred respond to the literature?<br />
What does Montag suspect, believe, or hear rumors about regarding the outside world (72-4)?<br />
What does Montag remember about Faber?<br />
“I don’t talk things. I talk the __________ of things.”<br />
What “beautiful” images and metaphors are used to describe burning paper (77-8)?<br />
How does Millie react when Montag asks if her TV “family” loves her?<br />
What does the chapter title “The Sieve and the Sand” refer to?<br />
* What is the author using the Denham’s Dentrifice” ad to thematically express?<br />
How does Faber first react to Montag’s visit (80)?<br />
* Explain Faber’s following quotes:<br />
- “Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward.”
- “I wonder if God recognizes His own son.”<br />
- “I did not speak, and thus became guilty myself.”<br />
- “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things<br />
could be in the ‘parlor families’ today.”<br />
Explain the three things which books possessed according to Faber:<br />
‘Pores’-<br />
Leisure –<br />
Right to action –<br />
What kinds of plans do Montag and Faber consider (84-6)?<br />
What does Montag do to the bible?<br />
What electronic device does Faber give to Montag?<br />
How does Faber plan to teach Montag the books so that he can remember them?<br />
What kinds of images do they watch on the parlor screen walls (93-4)?<br />
What kind of news do they learn about the war?
*What can we infer about the news and media in Montag’s society?<br />
*How do Mildred’s friends feel about children?<br />
Describe the two political candidates in the previous election (96-7).<br />
What does Montag do with the poetry book?<br />
Why does Mildred ask, “Now Guy, just who are you talking to?”<br />
How does Mrs. Phelps react to “Dover Beach”?<br />
*Consider Montag’s reaction to Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles as they leave his home. How does<br />
Montag’s feelings at the end of Part 2 reflect the image of the sieve and the sand?<br />
How does the “wine” metaphor apply to Montag and Faber’s relationship (102-3)?<br />
Describe Beatty’s dream (106).<br />
Beatty: “What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on<br />
you.”<br />
How does Beatty use books against Montag (105-8)?<br />
Faber reminds Montag that Beatty is a <strong>part</strong> of “the solid unmoving ___________ of the<br />
____________ (108).
* Why do you think the author chose for the firemen to play poker in this firehouse scene?<br />
Where does the fire truck go?