Fahrenheit 451 Pages 99-104

Mrs. Phelps cries after hearing the poem. This is most likely because:

• She hates poetry that much.

• She was moved by the message of the poem.

• She believes that what people do when they hear a poem.

• She was thinking of something else while Montag read.

Bradbury refers to the living room as a desert to indicate:

• How hot the tv walls must have made the room feel.

• that the air was dry and hard to breath.

• to relate a sense of emptiness amongst the crowd.

The reference to Mildred "dispersing the dynamite" is an idiom for:

• getting rid of the evidence.

• handling something dangerous with care.

• showing her neighbors what Montag had brought home.

It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of the night... "Consoling" means:

• Yelling

• Comforting

• Shaming

• Ignoring

When Faber says on page 104, "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn," he is suggesting:

• Montag will always be confused but it is okay.

• Montag is a genius for reading to the ladies.

• Montag will have to endure physical pain in this process.

• what Montag did tonight was necessary and he has nothing to be ashamed of.

At the end of the section, Montag is heading to:

• Clarisse's home

• The firehouse

• The country

• Wandering nowhere in particular.