Plot Basics
Montag's Feelings
Symbols and Ideas
The Professor
MILDRED & SOCIETY
100

What is at the door early in Part 2?

What is a mechanical hound?

100

One word that describes Montag at the start of Part 2.

What is overwhelmed? / confused?

100

What object has holes and cannot hold sand?

What is a sieve?

100

Who is the man Montag meets and trusts in Part 2?

Who is Faber?

100

What does Mildred spend most of her time doing?

What is watching TV / the wall screens?

200

Where does Montag remember meeting a thoughtful man?

What is the park?

200

The word Montag uses to describe his emotional state.

What is numb?

200

In the symbol, what does the sand represent?

What is knowledge or information?

200

Why is Faber afraid?

What is being caught / the government / firemen?

200

Why aren’t Mildred’s friends’ husbands around?

What are they dead or gone at war?

300

What does Montag read that causes problems on the subway?

What is the Bible?

300

Why does Montag feel like his wife is dying?

What is she is alive but emotionally empty?

300

What does the sieve and sand symbolize?

What is knowledge being lost or forgotten?

300

What three things does Faber say society is missing?


What are quality information, time to think, and freedom to protest?

300

What do the women care about when voting for a president?

What are looks and personality?

400

What does Montag do that shocks Mildred’s friends?

What is reading poetry aloud?

400

Two events that contribute to Montag feeling numb.

What are burning books and losing Clarisse?

Or old woman's death and Mildred's overdose

Or other's if argued well

400

According to Faber, books are important because of this, not paper.

What is meaning / ideas / quality information?

400

What device does Faber use to talk to Montag?What is the seashell radio earpiece?

What is the seashell radio earpiece?

400

Why does Mildred say poetry hurts people?

What is it makes people feel and think?

500

Why does a man on the subway shout “Call the guard!”?

What is Montag reading and acting strangely?

500

How does Montag feel at the end of Part 2? (two feelings)

What are afraid but awake? / scared but determined?

500

What is society missing that prevents real happiness?

What are quality meaning, thinking, connection?

500

How does Montag force Faber to help him?

What is ripping up the Bible?
500

Why do people in this society take sleeping pills so often?

What is they feel empty, unhappy, or numb?