Part+Two+Chapter+Questions

1. What does Mildred think is at the door? What is at the door? Mildred thinks that the thing scratching at the door is just a dog, a stray probably. She asks Guy if she should shoo it away, put he becomes anxious and tells her not to move, because he knows that what is outside the door is not just a dog, it is the Mechanical Hound, which Montag knows is tracking him. 2. What is Montag talking about when he says he saw a snake? Montag is talking about the time when Mildred had an overdose, and how the men brought a snake-like machine that cleansed Mildred's body of poison. 3. What does Montag remember when he is wondering where to get a teacher? Montag remembers the time he saw an old man in the park, who turns out to be Faber, an English Professor. 4. Who is the English Professor? The English Professor is Professor Faber, who worked at a college and taught english there. 5. Why did the last liberal arts college shut down? The college shut down because no one was going there, and no one was giving it money. People had lost interest in liberal arts because they thought it was boring. 6. When Faber was about to leave Montag, he said some things. What did Montag think he was reciting? Montag thought that Faber was reciting a poem. 7. What does Faber mean by, “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive” (75)? Faber is talking about how the people in Montag's world sit there and don't really talk or think about things in depth, whereas Faber thinks very thoroughly and deeply about things and likes to know the meaning of them. 8. What are some of the books that Montag asks Faber about? In the passage Montage finds Faber's phone number in his file and asks him about different liturature.Montag asks Faber about two or three books when they were talking. Montag asks about how many copies of the Bible are left in the country and asks how many copies of Shakespeare and Plato are left. 9. Why is Faber afraid to ask? Faber is afraid to ask because if found out the firemen would burn him. You start to notice Faber getting anxious while on the phone. He is afraid not only that Montag is trapping him, but if Montag is not he could still be caught by the authorities. He even says 'I can't talk on the phone to just anyone'. 10. While Montag is on the train what does he remember about when he was a child? While on the train Montage has a flash back of his youth. He was on the beach with his cousin. His cousin was cruel and told him 'Fill the sieve with sand and you will get a dime'. So he spend a hot summer day on a dune near the sea,trying to fill a sieve with sand. The faster he poured the faster the sieve would spill, with a hot hiss. He was tired, hot, and the sieve was empty. Then, in the hot midst of July, he felt tears roll down his face. 11. Why is he trying to remember the Bible? Montag knew Beatty was on to him. After consideration Montag came to the conclusion that if he gave Beatty another book he would think Montag had a whole library. At that point Montag and his house would burn. To avoid this untimely fate and still know what the book said, he tried to memorize it. This sent him in a hasty run to fill the sieve with sand. 12. What is causing Montag to have a difficult time reading the Bible? Montag had difficulty reading the Bible because he thought he could read fast and read all he would remember. Eating him away was the thought that in a few hours he would hand it over to Beatty. Then an ad came on. He slowly started to loose what he had read, and then the sand left the sieve. 13. How does Montag begin to behave? What is the reaction from the other riders? Montag began to act erratically. He started to get aggravated with the music and the fact that he can't read the passage. He begins to recite the phrase 'consider the lilies of the field' over and over to himself. Then he starts to yell it in the middle of the bus. The people o the bus began saying things like, 'Call the guard.' and yell at Montag. 14. Whom does Montag visit? After rushing off the bus Montag goes to consult Faber. He wants to talk to Faber about the books and to ask for help. 15. How is Professor Faber described? Professor Faber is described as a small, shy, and trembling old man. He is very quiet and does not speak much. When he talks about himself, he often calls himself a coward. However, he is very intellegent and knows a lot about books because he used to be a professor at a liberal arts university. 16. What are the three qualities that Faber says are needed? The threee qualities that Faber says are needed are 1. A good book has to have texture. To him texture means details and writin of good quality. 2. Leisure. We have to have time to think about what is going on in the text. 3. We have to have the ability to act on what goes on between the first two. 17. What idea did Montag have? Montag's idea was to make copies of many or all of the books they had so that if Captain Beatty got his hands on one copy, he still wouldn't be able to burn all of them. 18. What does Montag do to the Bible to try to get Faber to agree to help? Montag took the Bible and began to rip out pages one at a time. This made Faber agree to help him if he would stoop ripping out the pages. 19. What does Faber give Montag to help him out with his meeting with Beatty? Faber gives Montag a little hearing to device to put in his ear. It is too small to be seen, and can pick up sounds and transmitt them. This allows Faber to communicate with Montag but stay completely hidden. 20. Describe the show that Mildred and her friends are watching. The show that Mildred and her friends are watching is a mish-mash of all diffferent and random clips on after another. It starts off as a woman drinking orange juice and they watched the juice as it went through her body. Then, the screen travelled to a far of place and they were in the ocean looking at fish. The screen changed two more times. Oncee to see clowns hacking off others' limbs, and again to see cars getting ready to go at it and fight. 21. How did the women vote? What did they use for criteria when voting for president? The women voted for the President by comparing and contrasting each canidate's appearance. They based it on looks, height, speech, and even compared their names. 22. What does Montag do after he can’t take the women anymore? After Montag gets fed up with the women he begins to follow their advice and decides to read a poem from the book he was holding. 23. What is the name of the poem Montag reads? The name of the poem is "**//Dover Beach//**". 24. What is Mrs. Phelps’s reaction to the poem? After Montag gets done reading the poem "Dover Beach" Mrs. Phelps begins to cry very passionately and when the other women start to ask her why she responds "I-I don't know, I just, don't know". I think it's because Mrs. Phelps understood the beauty of the poem and reflects on her actions. 25. What does Montag do with the book after he has read the poem? After Montag read the poem to the other women he quickly and monotonously throws the book into the wall incinerator. After that he begins to yell at Mrs. Bowels about her husbands that are gone from her life and her children that despise her. 26. What does Beatty say when he sees Montag in the firehouse? After Beatty sees Montag for the first time in a few days, and is suspicious about what he's been doing he refers to Montag as a"Very strange beast in which all tongues is a fool." Then as soon as Montag hands Beatty the book his expression changes entirely welcoming Montag back from his delusional pursuits. 27. According to Beatty, why does he quote from the books that Montag clings to? From one perspective one might say that he liked the look of fear on Montag's face and thought it would humor him. The most likely reason however was to see if Montag actually read the books so he could incarcerate Montag. 28. What house do the firemen go to? The firemen go to Montag's house.