Places in Part 2
This is where the fire that Beatty takes Montag to at the end of Part 2.
Where is Montag's house?
This is the book Montag is trying to read on the bus.
What is the Bible?
This is what Montag answers Faber when he asks him what he wants.
What is "I want you to teach me"?
This threatens Montag and Mildred outside of their door.
What is a mechanical hound?
Montag reflects that only a week ago, he was doing this.
What is "pumping a kerosene hose" (i.e. burning down buildings with books in them).
This is the part of Montag's house, where Mildred's 'family' is found.
What is the parlour?
This is what Mrs. Phelps THINKS that Montag is reading.
What is a book on "firemen theory"?
This is what Montag tells Mildred when she asks him, "Someone--the door--why doesn't the door--voice tell us--".
What is "I shut it off"?
This is the name of the show that Mildred and her friends watch.
What is "The White Clown"?
This is what Montag is given after talking awhile with Faber a year ago.
What is Faber's name and address written on a piece of paper?
This is where Mrs. Phelps "plunks" her children nine days out of ten.
Where is school? (She "puts up with them three days of the month)
Beatty quotes Alexander Pope as saying that "a little learning is a dangerous thing" because if you drink from it shallowly, it intoxicates us, and if we drink deeply it does this to us.
What is "largely sobers us again"?
This person explains the "quick war" as "Forty-eight hours they said, and everyone home. That's what the army said. Quick war".
Who is Mrs. Phelps?
Mrs. Bowles gives two reasons why people should have children (or reproduce). One is because the world needs to "go on". This is the other reason she states.
What is "sometimes they look just like you, and that's nice"?
This is when Montag thinks the numbness began.
What is "the night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine"?
This is where Mrs. Phelp's husband, Pete, is.
Where is "at war"?
This is the poem that Montag recites and begins with the line "The sea of faith".
What is "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold.
The answer to the question is "because they have quality". What is the question?
What is "Why are books such as this so important"?
This is the product being advertised on the subway when Montag is trying to read.
What is toothpaste? (Denham's Dentrifice)
This event makes Faber say to Montag, "Fool, Montag, fool fool, oh God you silly fool...".
What is when Montag lectures Mildred's friends about their pathetic lives and kicks them out of his house?
This is where a "cruel cousin" said to Montag, "Fill this sieve and you'll get a dime".
Where is a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot summer day when he was a child?
This is the book of the Bible that Faber reads to Montag in his earpiece.
What is the Book of Job?
This person says, "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know, I've been through it all".
Who is Beatty?
This is the question that Montag asks Mildred about her relationship with the White Clown.
What is "Does the White Clown love you?"?
In this defining moment, Montag says he saw a snake, "It was dead but it was alive. It could see but it couldn't see".
What is when he was at the emergency hospital waiting for Mildred's stomach to be pumped (also by a "snake")?