Did Captain Beatty want to die? Explain your thinking using what you know about Beatty or examples from the novel.
Question 22
22.
Did the government kill Clarisse? Explain why they would or would not.
Question 23
23.
How is the theme of control demonstrated in part 3? What can a reader learn from this?
Question 24
24.
What is the real loss that Granger experienced when his grandfather died?
Question 25
25.
What does it show about Mildred when Montag can’t picture her hands doing anything?
Question 26
26.
Which sentence best summarizes the theme Montag's explanation that he can't see Mildred's hands doing anything? Choose a statement and explain how it shows the theme.
Ignorance leads nowhere.
People need to leave their mark on the world.
There are many ways to make an impact.
Question 27
27.
How can the Phoenix symbolize Montag, or society as a whole?
Question 28
28.
How is the Phoenix connected to the title of part 3, ‘Burning Bright’? What could this imply about the end of the novel?
Question 29
29.
Why do you think Montag wants to say the following when they reach the city?
“And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of nations.” (P. 158)
Question 30
30.
What part of the novel will stay with you the most? Explain why it impacted you.
Why does Montag burn his own house?
He accidentally sets it on fire.
He wants to start fresh.
Beatty forces him to as punishment.
He wants to pay tribute to the woman who burned herself.
What does Montag use to burn his house?
A matchstick
A flamethrower
A traditional lighter
A Molotov cocktail
Why does Montag kill Beatty?
Beatty insults Montag’s family
Montag acts out of sheer anger
Beatty provokes Montag and tries to arrest him
Beatty threatens to burn Faber’s house
What is the mechanical hound’s purpose?
To burn books alongside Montag
To patrol the streets for vandals
To protect the firefighters
To hunt down and kill fugitives
How does Montag get away from the mechanical hound?
He uses a flamethrower to kill it
He destroys it with a grenade
He outsmarts it by hiding underground
He turns himself in
What advice does Faber give Montag for his escape?
Find Clarisse’s family
Follow the river and meet the intellectuals.
Stay in town and fight
Head north into the mountains.
What does Montag do to throw off his scent?
He climbs a tree and hides
He changes into Faber’s clothes
He covers himself in mud
He jumps into a trash heap
How does Montag escape from the city?
He jumps into the river
He hides in an abandoned car
He boards a train
He steals a motorcycle
Where does Montag go immediately after escaping?
To Clarisse’s old house
To Faber’s house.
To the countryside
To his wife’s workplace
Who are the “book people”?
Former firefighters who turned against the government
A secret society hiding in the city
Historians recording the downfall of society
A group of intellectuals who escaped the city
How do the book people preserve literature?
They encode them digitally
They rewrite them on scraps of paper
They memorize entire books
They bury them in the woods
What book does Montag choose to memorize?
Part of the Book of Ecclesiastes
"Leaves of Grass"
"War and Peace"
"The Odyssey"
How does the government fake Montag’s death?
They show a doctored confession from Montag
They claim he committed suicide
They use another man and the mechanical hound to stage the killing
They use old footage of Montag
The phoenix is a ___________.
Symbol
Simile
Pretty bird
Legend
What causes Montag to reflect on the destructive cycle of society?
Remembering Clarisse’s words
Granger’s story about the Phoenix
Listening to Faber’s advice
Seeing the city destroyed by bombs
What happens to the city at the end of Part 3?
It falls into chaos and anarchy
It is destroyed by bombs during the war
It surrenders to the book people
It is taken over by a new government
What is Granger’s vision for the future?
To retreat into the wilderness forever
To create an underground book network
To overthrow the current government
To rebuild society with knowledge and wisdom
What is Montag’s final thought in Part 3?
That he regrets his actions
That he misses his wife
That he failed to save society
That he must rebuild and share the wisdom he now carries
What does Montag recall seeing when the bombs fall?
A vision of Mildred in a hotel room
His family reading together
The Bible pages burning
His wife smiling at him
What does Montag want to say once they reach the city?