What happens when Montag is attacked by the mechanical hound?

In Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451," Montag is attacked by the "mechanical hound".

Explanation:

The story revolves around the lead character, a fireman named Guy Montag. He has become disillusioned with his role of destroying knowledge and censoring literature. In due course, he quits his job and starts working for the preservation of literary and cultural writings. There are two hounds mentioned in the novel.

The first one belonged to Montag's fire station. When Montag killed "Captain Beatty" with his flamethrower outside his own house, he was attacked by the hound. But Montag destroyed it with his "flamethrower" before it could inject him with his poison.

Now, as Montag had become a fugitive, another hound was brought to hunt him down. To save himself, he first jumped into the river. Then to mask his scent, he drank a liquid given by Granger. Not been able to find him, the hound killed another person in the city so that the government could say that they had caught Montag. Soon after the city was bombed, the second hound was surely thought to be destroyed in it.

What happens when Montag is attacked by the mechanical hound?

a) The hound attacks Montag and stabs him in the leg with a numbing agent.

b) Montag is able to escape before the hound attacks him.

c) Montag turns the flame thrower on the hound and destroys it.

d) Montag takes out his sidearm and shots the hound in the head before it can attack him.

Answer:

a) The hound attacks Montag and stabs him in the leg with a numbing agent.

c) Montag turns the flame thrower on the hound and destroys it.

Explanation:

In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the mechanical hound set by Beatty to attack Montag injects a large dose of a numbing agent in the fireman's leg. Montag destroys the mechanical hound with his flamethrower just in time. After walking off his leg's numbness, he leaves, not without taking some books he had lurked in his backyard.