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Ms. Muzaurieta’sStudy Guide 2 for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Introduction: This novel is broken into three main parts; we are still in Part One. You will continue the same sort of study guide you completed for the first eleven chapters. Again, I have given you room for plot summary & vocabulary notes; I also ask fact and analysis questions. (You should still pay attention to setting/world clues; I am not pointing them out anymore.) Study guide work for each chapter is due the same day as the reading.

Vocabulary: Use a dictionary and context clues…and ask in class about words you still don’t comprehend. You can fill in definitions right here on the study guide.

Fact: These questions check your comprehension of the story. You should be able to answer them easily as you read. You can fill in the answers right on this study guide.

Analysis: To prepare for class, bullet your ideas about these questions. Question numbers match chapter numbers, so they can be lettered as well. Chapter 4 has two questions, for example, so these are labeled 4A and 4B. Answer both.

When I assign this work to be written out, questions are worth 5 points each and require several sentences with specific references to the novel; quotes are nice. Begin each answer by restating the question. Use separate paper; typing is preferred. You might complete these questions at home, in class, or with a group.

NOTE: Keep up with motif study, which is described on another paper.

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 Chapter 12 – pgs 32-35

Vocab: guilt –

Vocab: self-consciousness –

Vocab: soot-colored brows, bluish-ash-smeared cheeks –

Vocab: proclivities –

Vocab: flashback –

Fact:

1. The date is .

2. A man whose library was burned was , but Montag knows .

3. When Beatty says, “You got some?” what two scenes does Montag picture in his imagination?

4. ’s influence is causing Montag to ask dangerous questions.

5. PLOT summary:

  • Analysis Q12: According to the rule book, who established the Firemen of America, when, and why? Why would the government ensure that people are taught this version of history?

 Chapter 13 – pgs 35-40

Vocab: objectivity –

Vocab: fervor –

Vocab: mindlessness –

Vocab: gilt titles –

Vocab: fanatics –

Fact:

1. When the woman quotes a famous historical line, Beatty .

2. Montag’s hand acts on its own when it .

3. Why do firemen do their work at night?

4. PLOT summary:

  • Analysis Q13A: The old woman says, “You can’t ever have my books.” Explain what she means. Is she a heroic figure?
  • Analysis Q13B: Bradbury uses 5 similes and metaphors to describe books. List them and explain their effect.

 Chapter 14 – pg 40

Fact:

  1. How does Beatty explain knowing the old woman’s quote?
  1. What does the quote mean?

3. PLOT summary:

  • Analysis Q14: A salamander is a tailed amphibian; mythical salamanders lived in fire. Explain the use of the word “salamander” in this section.

 Chapter 15 – pgs 41-42

Fact:

1. Montag stashes a new book .

2. Lying in bed, Montag is .

3. PLOT summary:

  • Analysis Q15: Explain in what sense Montag’s hand has become “infected.” Be sure to consider “what his hand did” in chapter 13.

 Chapter 16 – pgs 42-48

Vocab: fathoms of blackness –

Vocab: desperate –

Vocab: zinc-oxide-faced men –

Vocab: Electronic-Eyed Snake –

Vocab: gibbering pack of tree apes –

Vocab: “relatives” –

Vocab: cacophony –

Vocab: praying mantis –

Fact:

1. Mildred cannot answer Montag’s question about .

2. This makes her .

3. Montag calls actors on the TV shows.

4. The minimum speed limit is .

5. Mildred says Clarisse has .

5. As Mildred goes to sleep, Montag hears (outside) .

6. PLOT summary:

  • Analysis Q16: Present evidence showing that Montag and Mildred are growing apart. Consider: the quality of their conversations; their attitudes toward memories, soap operas, and driving (see also p.64); their reactions to the death of Clarisse. You may also refer to the beginning of chapter 17.

 Chapter 17 – pgs 48-63

Pay attention to and try to figure out all of these words as you read; this will help you understand the chapter. We will analyze this important section separately.

Vocab: radical, Dante, Swift, Marcus Aurelius, Phoenix car, Twentieth Century, “condensations, digests, tabloids,” Hamlet, censorship, mass exploitation, minority pressure, intellectual, “official censors, judges and executors,” lip-read, Little Black Sambo, heredity and environment, noncombustible data, Happiness, Happiness Boys, “melancholy and drear philosophy,” diatribe

Fact:

1. Basic PLOT summary:

2. How does Mildred react when Montag says he might quit his job?

3. Sum up Beatty’s visit briefly. (We’ll analyze it together.)

 Chapter 18 – pgs 63:

Fact:

1. As Montag looks at the houses, what pops into his mind?

2. PLOT summary:

 Chapter 19 – pgs 63-68

Fact:

1. Mildred likes to drive because…

2. Montag takes from behind .

  • Analysis Q19A: Explain what Montag is talking about when he says, “We’ve got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we’re in such a mess, you and the medicine nights, and the car, and me and my work. We’re heading right for the cliff, Millie. God, I don’t want to go over” (66). Explain also Millie’s reaction. (Hint: Think about how this symbol was used in The Catcher in the Rye.)
  • Analysis Q19B: What’s the problem with jumping into a random book of literature if you’ve never read one before? (Hint: What knowledge do you bring? How does context matter?)
  • Analysis Q19C: Explain the Part One title, “The Hearth and the Salamander.” (Hint: refer back to #4 and 14.)

REFLECTION QUESTION: Think about the scene with which we started. We know Montag sets someone on fire, thus murdering the person. Why do you think this happens?

Vocabulary list (3 quizzes)

0 epigraph

0minstrel man

1peculiar, phoenix-disc

2subconscious, marionette show, refracted, foreshadowing, simile

3mausoleum, zombie, irony

4accumulated, serum, puff adders, suffocation, contra-sedative

5electronic bees, Seashell ear thimbles, hangover

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8olfactory system, proboscis, jolts of morphine or procaine, incinerator, trajectory, ballistics

9antisocial, TV class, funnels, Window Smasher place, Car Wrecker place, playing “chicken” and “knock hubcaps”, abnormal, responsibility, jet cars, Fun Park

10suicide, dis-ease (as opposed to disease)

11guilt, self-consciousness, soot-colored brows, bluish-ash-smeared cheeks, proclivities, flashback

12objectivity, fervor, mindlessness, gilt titles, fanatics

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15fathoms of blackness, desperate, zinc-oxide-faced men, Electronic-Eyed Snake, gibbering pack of tree apes, “relatives,” cacophony, praying mantis

16radical, Dante, Swift, Marcus Aurelius, Phoenix car, Twentieth Century, “condensations, digests, tabloids,” Hamlet, censorship, mass exploitation, minority pressure, intellectual, “official censors, judges and executors,” lip-read, Little Black Sambo, heredity and environment, noncombustible data, Happiness, Happiness Boys, “melancholy and drear philosophy,” diatribe