Study Guide Questions for Fahrenheit 451 "Burning Bright"
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How has Beatty given Montag hints that he (Montag) is under suspicion?
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he has sent the Hound around Montag's place
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Who turns in an alarm against Montag?
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Mildred
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What happens to Montag's green bullet?
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Beatty hit Montag hard on the head, and the bullet is knocked out of Montag's head and onto the sidewalk and Beatty picks it up
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What does Montag realize about Beatty after he kills him?
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he wanted to die
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To where does Montag run first after killing Beatty?
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Faber's house
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What has happened to Montag's leg?
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he got stabbed by the Hound in his leg
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Why does Montag want Faber to turn on the air conditioning and sprinklers?
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he wants to cover his tracks for Faber
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Why does the search for Montag veer inland?
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Montag threw them off and they are faking that the chase is still happening
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Who dies in Montag's place? Why?
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an innocent man, the searchers were thrown off, and just to make the people feel safe, they killed the man
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How does Montag finally escape the mechanical hound?
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he changes his scent
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Who does Montag come upon along the train tracks?
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some people who read books too
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Where have these people hidden their books?
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they read the books and then burn them, afraid that they would be found
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Note the analogy of the phoenix that Granger explains to Montag. How does this analogy apply to the ending of the story?
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the people are like the phoenix, they are destroying themselves because of the issue with books but the number of people who read books, grows, and at the end of the story, the number of the people who read books grows, because Montag is added to that group now
