Category 1
This is the significance of the number 451 in the title of the novel.
What is the temperature at which paper burns.
This is the role of firemen in the society of "Fahrenheit 451."
What is they set things (mainly books) on fire.
This is what the salamander symbolizes in the story.
What is the destructive force of fire.
This is what the hearth symbolizes in the story.
What is the warmth and love of family that's missing in this society.
This is who wrote the story.
Who is Ray Bradbury
This is the primary reason for banning books in this society.
What is to prevent the spread of dangerous ideas and dissent.
This is what the mechanical hound symbolizes in the story.
What is the government's need for control and surveillance of its citizens.
This is one question that speculative fiction asks.
What is "What if...?"
These people are Mildred's family.
Who are the people in the television (parlor walls).
Mildred not remembering that she took pills and tried to unalive herself is an example of how she is both _____ and ______.
What is alive and dead.
This is the significance of the character Clarisse McClellan.
What is she represents rebellion and a connection to the natural world.
This is the role of Seashells in the novel.
What is they provide a complete distraction from reality.
This is what Mildred symbolizes in the story.
What is the model, compliant citizen who does as she's told.
This is what Montag has hidden in the back of his air conditioning unit.
What is a book.
He is Montag's superior at the Fire Department
Who is Captain Beatty
This iswhat does Montag realizes when he emerges from the woods and sees the bonfire.
That fire can bring warmth as well as destruction.
This is what Montag realizes after he kills Beatty.
Beatty wanted to die.
This is the event that marks a turning point for Montag.
What is meeting Clarisse.
These are the themes that are introduced in the first part of the novel.
What are censorship, technology, and conformity
This is the opening line of the novel.
What is "It was a pleasure to burn."
These are some events/developments that may have influenced the author when writing "Fahrenheit 451."
What are the advent of television, the rise of Communism, new technology.
"One of them slid down her throat like a cobra" is an example of this literary element.
What is a simile.
This is why Mrs. Blake wouldn't leave her house.
What is she wouldn't let them burn her books.
This is the decade in which "Fahrenheit 451 was written."
What is the 50's.
This is the name of the short story we read by the same author that uses the same themes as the novel.
What is "The Pedestrian."