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Comprehension Check
1. Mildred
2. it’s a mystery; “real beauty that destroys
responsibility and consequences”; it’s “Antibiotic,
aesthetic, practical.” Responses will vary.
3. the bedroom, the twin beds, the bedroom walls, the
cosmetic chest; he wants to destroy everything
between him and Millie
4. Beatty hits Montag in the head and it flies out of his
ear.
5. Montag burns him with the flame-thrower; He
realizes that Beatty wanted to die. Responses will
vary.
6. his paralyzed leg
7. to Faber’s house; he doesn’t have anywhere else to
turn
8. the police are after Montag
9. citizens; he thought it was the police but it was just
some kids “playing”; it reveals the callousness and
anger within this society—that they would run over
someone for fun
10. He wants to frame Fireman Black.
11. the river; there are others like him there; St. Louis
12. to get rid of Montag’s scent so the Mechanical
Hound won’t trace him
13. everyone in the world will be watching him on
television if he is seen
14. to open the doors in a synchronized manner to look
outside for Montag
15. to get rid of any scent he has on him
16. Answers will vary. He is leaving the city, where
people walk around like ghosts and are shallow and
without souls.
17. The girls left an apple, a pear, and milk for Montag.
18. he realizes it is not destroying, but warming
19. They lost his scent, so they look for an unsuspecting
scapegoat so that the public doesn’t think Montag
got away.
20. They don’t actually catch Montag—they catch an
innocent man that they claim is Montag and kill him.
21. He knows that Montag escaped the depths of a
soulless society; also they claim to have killed
Montag, but obviously, he is alive.
22. so they won’t get caught and ruin their plans
23. no one is important; they are nothing
24. that they can teach new generations the books they
have memorized; to bring new thought into their
society and to learn from their history so they don’t
make the same mistakes again
25. He was Granger’s inspiration; he was an important
person to Granger and others, and what he did with
his life still has an impact on Granger; Millie did
nothing to touch or inspire anyone; she never made
an impact on anything or anyone because of the life
she led in this society.
26. Granger’s grandfather said this; it means he hates
the status quo—or the way things are or have always
been. He wanted to see change and to challenge the
way things are done.
27. He pictured her in her hotel room, entranced by the
parlor walls, trying desperately to make a
connection with the walls or to try to find meaning;
then the bombs come
28. the Phoenix is a mythical creature who burns up,
then is reborn from the ashes; he hopes that after
this war, society will also be able to be reborn; the
only way it will change is if everything is destroyed
and they start all over, knowing the history of what
has happened in the past so they don’t repeat it
29. to the city; to begin making their change on society