What did Mildred and Montag do after Captain Beatty left?
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They read the books
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What comes to Mildred and Montag's door shortly after Beatty leaves?
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The mechanical hound
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Why does Mildred get upset with Montag when he keeps talking about Clarisse and what made her unique?
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Because Mildred refuses to talk about someone who is dead
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Why does Mildred she wishes she could watch her parlor family instead of read?
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The tv shows are filled with color and it makes her laugh
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What is Mildred scared about with Beatty?
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She is scared that he will find out about all the books and he will burn the house and her "family"
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What does Montag feel books can do?
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He thinks they will be able to stop people from making the same mistakes
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Why does Montag want a teacher?
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Because he doesn't understand what he is reading
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Who did Montag meet in a park around a year ago?
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Faber
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What did Faber do?
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He was a English professor
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What college did Faber work for?
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The Liberal Arts College
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Why was the college shut down?
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For lack of students and patronage
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When did the college shut down?
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40 years ago
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What did Faber try to hide while he tried to runaway from Montag when they met?
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A book of poems
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What did Faber give Montag after he met?
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His phone number and address
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Why did Faber give his phone number and address to Montag?
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For Montag's "Future Investigations" folder
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When Montag called Faber for the first time what did he ask him?
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How many copies of the Bible, Shakespeare, or Plato are left in the country
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What does Faber think Montag is trying to do when he calls him and how does he react?
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He thinks Montag is trying to trap/frame him and he hangs up the phone
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What book did Montag take from the old lady who was burned alive?
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The bible
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What does Montag realize about the book he took from the oldlady who was burned to death?
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That this might be the last copy of the Bible in their country
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T/F: Montag considers turning in the Bible to Beatty
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False
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What books does Montag think about turning into Beatty?
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Mr. Jefferson and Mr.Thoreau
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What is Montag scared of Beatty finding out about the book he turns into him?
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That he knows what book he took
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What does Montag decide to do with the bible?
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He decides to make a copy of it before that night
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What does Mildred tell Montag why her friends are coming over?
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To watch the "White Clown"
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Which friends of Mildred come over?
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Mrs.Phelps and Mrs. Bowles
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How does Montag get to Faber's?
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The subway
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What childhood memory does the sieve and the sand relate to Montag
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When he was a kid his mean cousin said if he filled the sieve with sand he would get a dime
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What does Montag try to do while he is going to Faber's?
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He tries to memorize the Bible
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What distracts Montag while he is going to Faber's?
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A jingle for "Denham's Detrifrice" toothpaste
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What happens when the jingle distracts Montag?
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He gets so mad that he waves the bible out to the other passengers on the subway
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What does Montag show Faber that makes Faber's fear of Montag slowly fade?
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He sees that he has a book with him
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T/F: Faber is a religious man
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False
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Why has Montag come to Faber?
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He wants hhim to teach him to understand books
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What does Faber tell Montag that he doesnt understand the real reason for something?
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Faber tells Montag that he doesnt understand the real reason for his unhappiness and is only guessing that is has something to do with books since they are the obly things he knows for sure are gone.
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What does Faber say about books and their meanings that can relate to other things?
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He says that the same meaning can be in media, television, and radio but the people choose not to
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What does Faber say that explains why books are hated?
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Faber says the reason why books are heated and feared is because they show the pores in the face of life
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What 3 things does Faber say are missing from people that are in books
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1) Quality (texture). He says the Ible has "pores" and feautres and deatalied knowledge of life
2)Leisure. He says books let the reader stop what their reading and think about what they just read unlike tv
3) The right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interation of the first 2
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What does Faber agree with Mildred with?
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That television is more real than books but he dislikes it because it is too controlling
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What does Montag give Faber before he leaves?
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He gives him the bible to go photo copy
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What does Faber give Montage before he leaves?
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These seashell radio headphones that let you communicate through each earpiece that he invented
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What is Montag's and Faber's major plan?
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Planting books in the homes of firemen to discredit the frofession and see the firehouses burn.
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What does Faber disagree with Montag's major plan?
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That it will not get to the heart of the problem
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What does Faber say they need to do to fufill their major plan?
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They need to be patient, since the coming war will eventually mean the death of the tv families
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What does Montag do to finally get Faber's help?
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He starts ripping the pages out of the bible before Faber begs him to stop
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What does Faber say he will help Montag with for the bible?
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He says he knows an old friend who has a printing press to copy the bible
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What does Faber give Montag when he requests for help with Beatty that night?
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His radio/communicating/hearing seashells that he invented
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What book does Montag decide to give to Beatty?
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It doesn't say but it is a substitue book
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How late are the banks open to?
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24/7
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What are the bank tellers?
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Robots
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What book does Faber read over the earpiece to Montag?
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"The Book of Jobs"
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What does Montag try to do when he gets home?
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He tries to get Mildred and her two friends in a deep conversation
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How long do the ladies think the war will last?
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48 hours
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T/F: The ladies are not worried about the war
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True
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Whose husbands go off to war?
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Mrs.Phelps and Mrs. Bowles
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What man has none of the 3 ladies ever known?
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Somebody who died in war
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How many atomic wars has their been since 1990?
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2
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What makes Montag mad when he is talking to Mildred and her friends?
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When they discuss politics and they describe how they boted in the last presidential election based on physical appearance
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What does Montag bring out that shocks all the 3 women?
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A book of poetry
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What lie does Mildred come up with when Montag brings the book out?
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That every year a fireman is allowed to take on book home to show his family and prove what nonsense books are
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What commad does Faber make Montag do?
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Go along with Mildred's lie
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What poem does Montag read to the 3 ladies?
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"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
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What happens when Montag is done reading his poem?
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Mrs.Phelps is in tears and Mrs. Bowles is furious with Montag and swears to never come back to this house
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What does Montag do after reading the poem?
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He drops the book in the incinerator
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What does Montag do that makes the 2 ladies leave?
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Montag blows up on Mrs.Bowles and tells her to go home and think about her empty life
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What has Mildred been doing to Montag's books?
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She's been burning the books one by one
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What does Montag do with the rest of the books he has?
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He hides them in the backyard
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What does Montag feel guilty about?
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Upsettig Mildred's friends
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What happens when Montag goes to the firestation and gives the book to Beatty?
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He throws the book in the trashcan and lights it?
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What does Beatty do to Montag?
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He attavks him with litery quotations to confuse him and convince him that books are better burned then read
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T/F: The Mechanical Hound is gone
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True
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What thing does Beatty do that is different when the alarm goes off?
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He drives the truck
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What house do they arrive at that has caused the alarm?
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Montag's
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What are the themes of this book?
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Rebellion, Growth, Happiness, Dystopian, Comformity, Distortion, Censorship, anit - intellectualism, violence, shallow culture, and proliferation of advertising
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