“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
Chapter 2: The Sieve & the Sand
Pages 67-106
DIRECTIONS: Rewrite the following on your own
notebook paper as you fill in the blanks with the correct
word.
Montag and ____ spend the afternoon reading. The Mechanical
Hound comes and sniffs at the door. Montag speculates about what it
was that made ___ so unique. ____ refuses to talk about someone
who is ___ and complains that she prefers the people and the pretty
colors on her TV walls to books. Montag feels that books must
somehow be able to help him out of his ignorance, but he does ____
understand what he is reading and decides that he must find a ____.
He thinks back to an afternoon a year before when he met an old
_____ professor named ____ in the park. He calls him and asks him
how many copies of the _____, _____, or ____ are left in the
country. ____, who thinks Montag is trying to trap him, says ____ are
left and ____the phone.
Montag goes back to his pile of books and realizes that he has what
may be the last copy of the _____ in existence. He considers turning
in a substitute book to ____ (who knows he has at least one book), but
he realizes that if ____ knows which book he took, the chief will
guess that he has a whole ____ if he gives him a different book. He
decides to have a _____ made before that night. He takes the____ to
_____, and on the way tries to memorize verses from the _____. A
commercial distracts him, and finally he gets up in front of all the
passengers and screams _____, waving ___.
Montag goes to ______ and shows him the book, which alleviates
Faber’s ______ of him. He asks ______to teach him to understand
what he ______. Faber says that ______ does not know the real
reason for his ______ and is only guessing that it has something to do
with _____, since they are the only things he knows for sure are gone.
____ insists that it’s not the books themselves that ____ is looking
for, but the ____ they contain. The same meaning could be included
in existing media like television and radio, but people no longer
demand it. Faber compares their superficial society to flowers trying
to live on flowers instead of on good, substantive dirt. People are
unwilling to accept the basic realities and unpleasant aspects of life.
Faber says that people need quality information, the leisure to digest
it, and the freedom to act on what they learn. Faber defines quality
information as a textured and detailed knowledge of _____.
_________ agrees with Midlred that television seems more “real”
than books, but _____ dislikes it because it is too invasive and ____.
Books at least allow the reader to put them down, giving one time
___ and ____ about the information they contain. ___ insists that it’s
not the books themselves that ___ _ is looking for, but the____ they
contain. The same meaning could be included in existing media like
television and radio, but people no longer demand it.
_____suggests planting books in the homes of ___ to discredit the
profession and see the ___ burn. Faber doesn’t think that this action
would get to the heart of the problem. The firemen aren’t really
necessary to suppress books because the public stopped ___ on their
own before they were burned.
Faber says they just need to be patient, since the coming ___ will
eventually mean the death of the TV. Montag concludes that they
could use that as a chance to bring books back. Montag bullies Faber
by tearing pages out of the _____ one by one. Faber finally agrees to
help, revealing that he knows someone with a (54) _____who used to
print his college _____.
Montag asks for help with Beatty that night, and Faber gives him a
two-way radio he has created to fit in Montag’s (56) ____ so the
Faber can hear what Beatty has to say and tell Montag what to say.
Montag decides to risk giving Beatty a substitute _______.
Fahrenheit 451 – Chapter 2 VOCABULARY
DIRECTIONS: Choose 14 of the highlighted words in the chapter summary to complete the chart below.
VOCABULARY
Re-write the original sentence using a SYNOMYM in place of the VOCABUALRY
WORD
WORD or write an original sentence using the word in CONTEXT.
A utensil made of mesh or having small
holes, used to strain solids from
Montag began to feel as if he were a grain of sand being
liquids or the separate particles of
strained through a sieve.
loose matter from coarse ones.
Definition
sieve