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The Sieve and the Sand Quiz
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1
Why is Montag unable to memorize the Bible on the train?
he is too scared to read the Bible in front of people
"Denham's Dentifrice" and other such commercials are blaring
He dropped the Bible on the way to the subway
He realizes his feeble brain is incapable of the a large job
2
Why is it ironic that Mildred sees no values in books since "Books aren't people."
Her "family" in the parlor walls are not real people either
The books are more valuable than people
the books can bring people together, forming connections
Mildred does not know how to read
3
What does Faber say is missing from society?
the right to carry out actions
quality of information
all the above
the leisure to digest it
4
How does Montag communicate with Faber in his absence?
Faber hides in a van outside the firehouse
Faber talks to him through a green bullet listening device
Montag closes his eyes and imagines what Faber would say
Montag memorizes the speech Faber wrote for him.
5
What is "Jesus Christ" like in Montag's society?
He is only brought up at Christmas time
He has been erased as though He never existed
He has been commercialized and is broadcast over the wall TV
He has morphed into an villain that chases "the relatives."
6
Who or what is outside Montag's door. " a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam"
The Mechanical Hound
Beatty
The firemen
the robot servant
7
Beatty takes Montag to burn_____
Montag's house
Beatty's own house
Faber's house
Clarisse and her uncle's house
8
What secret does Montag reveal to Mildred?
He has approximately 20 books illegally hidden
The realization that he does not love her
the sad truth that he is in love with Clarisse
The fact that he has been reading books for years
9
What piece of trivia does Faber tell Montag that he didn't realize before?
the public itself stopped reading of its own accord
professors were the first to ask for book burnings
Clarisse was not actually hit by a car; she escaped.
the war was a ruse to scare people into submission
10
What plan of action do Montag and Faber accidentally come up with?
burn the fire chief to prevent him from catching him
plant book and turn in alarms on fireman
to bomb the city, obliterating everybody
to memorize books (instead of printing them)
11
To what is Montag referring when he says, "I saw the damnedest snake the other night..."?
The snake from the TV show Mildred watches
The snake emblem on the fire truck
the fear he harbors out of fear of detection
the tube used to pump Mildred's stomach
12
Why does Montag reveal his book of poetry to Mildred's guests.
He is hoping to get the ladies caught reading and burned .
He had no choice because Mildred revealed his dirty secret
He is hopeful that the women appreciate the poetry
He is fed up with them and he cannot stand them anymore
13
Fabor remarks that books smell like____
like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land
like the air following a sudden rainstorm
Like the molds that grow in damp, dark places
like the soil of the earth after it has been tilled.
14
Why does Montag keep hearing planes flying overhead?
The government routinely flies planes to scare the citizens
the country is at war, but nobody talks about it
The planes are surveillance aircraft sent to watch his house
there are no planes; the sound is just in his earbuds
15
Who is Faber?
Clarisse's uncle, who inspired and enlightened her
an old, retired English professor that Montag met in a park
the author of a poetry book that Montag has hidden
the long haired guy on the front of romance novels
