5.+Study+Questions+-+Part+3


 * //Fahrenheit 451-Burning Bright//**
 * Questions for Discussions**
 * Pages 113-136**


 * 1) To what does Bradbury compare the scene at Montag’s house?
 * 2) How did Beatty describe Clarisse?
 * 3) What did Mildred regret losing in the fire?
 * 4) Who turned in the alarms?
 * 5) Why was Montag at first afraid to run?
 * 6) What did Beatty discover when he hit Montag? Because of the discovery, what did he threaten to do?
 * 7) How did Montag’s leg become “a numbness in a numbness hollowed into a numbness”?
 * 8) What two announcements did Montag hear on the Seashell radio?
 * 9) What happened when Montag crossed the ten-lane highway?
 * 10) Where will Faber be going on the 5:00 AM bus?
 * 11) To what mythical character did Beatty compare Montag?
 * 12) Of what “dreadful surprise” did Montag suddenly become aware?
 * 13) What old feeling came back to Montag as he burned his own house? Why?
 * 14) Why did Beatty choose to say the lines from Shakespeare? (Page 119)
 * 15) What did Montag mean by “We never burned right…”? What kind of burning might he consider right?
 * 16) Why do you think Bradbury chose to have Beatty die as he did?
 * 17) How does Montag’s injured leg—“like a chunk of burnt pine”—help to symbolize his state of mind as he hobbles away?
 * 18) Montage realized that Beatty wanted to die. What explanation can you give for this?
 * 19) Why is it appropriate that way is finally declared at this point in the novel? How does this correlate with the inner Montage and his relationship to society?
 * 20) When Montag arrives at Faber’s, how does he act differently than he did during his last visit there?

**//Fahrenheit 451-Burning Bright//**
 * Questions for Discussions**
 * Pages 137-165**
 * 1) How did the Hound “not touch the world”?
 * 2) What did Montag’s own desperate flight remind him of?
 * 3) What new “game” did the police invent?
 * 4) What things did Montag think about as he drifted down the river?
 * 5) What fantasy did Montag enjoy as he drifted along?
 * 6) What terrified Montag when he stepped onto land?
 * 7) Montag intuitively knew what?
 * 8) What did Granger give Montag to deter the Hound?
 * 9) What “snap ending” had to be created for the “chase show” on TV?
 * 10) Who are the members of the group Montag meets in the woods? (page 150) How do they think of themselves?
 * 11) What had Montag expected to find in the men’s faces?
 * 12) What one thing were the men sure of?
 * 13) Did Montag want Mildred to die in the bomb blast? How did he picture her?
 * 14) Where was Faber when the bombs hist?
 * 15) What incredible thing did the men see from the woods?
 * 16) What did the blast cause Montag to remember?