Fahrenheit 451 Part 1
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100

This is where Clarisse and Guy Montag meet.

Where is walking on the sidewalk?

100

Why does Mildred have company over to visit?

What is to watch the "White Clowns" on TV?

100

This is the leader of the social outcasts and group of professors that Montag meets by the railroad tracks.

Who is Granger?

100

Some of you have gotten in trouble for coming to school clad in something inappropriate.  What does "clad" mean?

What is "dressed in" ?

100

This is how Mildred tries to take her own life as the novel opens.

What is an overdose of sleeping pills?

100

What part of the body continuously seems to function independently in the story?  

What is Montag's hands?

200

This is the metaphor for the animal that Montag used when he described the stomach pump and blood-replacement machine that the EMS used on Mildred.

What is a snake?

200

Why are there no books in this society?

What is the general population did not want them anymore because they found them offensive, etc.

200

This is how the city is destroyed when the war occurs.

what is by bombs?

200

When Montag is injected with the procaine needle by the hound is is in tremendous pain and ___________ on the ground. 

What is writhes?

200

This is what the earbuds in the novel are called.

What are seashells?

200

What factory is Montag going to open now once the war has ended? 

What is a mirror factory?

300

This is the number of walls that are TV walls in Montag's home.

What is 3?

300

These are the two things Montag and Faber exchange.

What is "Montag gave Faber the Bible" and "Faber gave Montag his green ear piece?"

300

Describe the person that the government killed in place of Montag.

Who is a random pedestrian?

300

People have a natural tendency to be lazy.  What word means "natural tendency"?

What is proclivity?

300

What symbol is on Montag's fire helmet?

What is a Salamander?

300

This is where Faber tells Montag to take a bus to after the war

Where is St. Louis?

400

This is what happens to the woman who refuses to leave her books behind.

What is "she is burned alive after striking a match to set herself and her books on fire?"

400

This is the name of the toothpaste advertised on the subway that provokes Montag.

What is Denham’s Dentifrice ?

400

This is how Montag and Granger keep knowledge of books.

What is "to memorize books?"

400

There is a small truth to every joke.  Some might say that there is a ____________ of truth that makes it funny.  

What is kernel?

400

The mechanical hound tracks down its prey by what?

What is its Chemical Complex?

400

Montag has stolen about how many books in his career?

What is 20?

500

This novel takes place in which type of society- 

Utopian

Caste System

Dystopian

Communistic

What is Dystopian?

500

Which book of the bible does Faber read to Montag over the green bullet? 

What is the Book of Job?

500

This is the symbolic bird that Granger teaches his men about.

What is "The Phoenix?"

500

After the bomb drops it is with _______________ that Montag knows Mildred did not survive. 

What is certitude? 

500

This is the "incredible thing" left for him at the bottom of the hayloft stair. 

What is a glass of milk, an apple and a pear?

500

What does Granger give Montag to hide his scent? 

What is a chemical concoction that will change his scent? 

600

The woman in the house alluded to him, saying, "Play the man," when the firemen entered her home.

Who is Master Ridley?

600

What political party did presidential candidate Mr. Hoag belong to?

What is the "Outs"?

600

This is what Granger's group does before heading for the city after the bombing.

What is build a fire and make breakfast?

600

Which vocabulary word might be used to describe the discordant sounds of everything crashing and people screaming, etc. when the bomb finally dropped? 

What is cacophony?

600

This is the city where Montag and Mildred first met.

Where is Chicago?

600

Granger talks fondly of whom?

Who is his grandfather?

700

What are the first words of the novel?

What is "It was a pleasure to burn"?

700

This is the name of the poem Montag reads to his wife, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles.

What is "Dover Beach?"

700

What does Montag plan to share with the other Havard Hobos at noon?

What is a passage from Revelations about the Healing of a Nation?

700

Montag expresses, "He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a ________ skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out." 

What word is missing and why does he say this? 

What is tallow?  and what is because Clarisse had made him realize that he was NOT happy. 

700

Who said, "I hate a Roman named Status Quo"? and what was meant by this?

Who is Granger's grandfather? Grandpa didn't want Granger to just accept things as they were but to go out and experience life—to take action.  

700

What book did Granger have memorized?

What is Plato's Republic?

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