Characters
This is Montag's teenage neighbor, the first person to ask if he's happy
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
This yellow flower, rubbed under the chin, supposedly reveals whether someone is in love
What is a dandelion?
This $2,000 object is the fourth wall-sized television Mildred wants installed in the parlor
What is the parlor wall?
This is the activity that gives Montag "a special pleasure" at the very start of the novel
What is the burning of books and houses?
This is the opening line of the novel
What is "It was a pleasure to burn"?
This is Montag's fire captain, who says the Mechanical Hound "doesn't like or dislike," it just "functions"
Who is Beatty?
This eight-legged mechanical creature with a hidden needle represents the state's surveillance and pursuit
What is the Mechanical Hound?
In this society, walking for pleasure alone is suspicious enough to get you arrested for it
What is being a "pedestrian"?
This is what Mildred does the same night Montag first meets Clarisse, requiring two technicians and two machines to fix
What is overdosing on sleeping pills?
This is the fireman's "official slogan," naming three authors and the days they're burned
What is "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner"?
This is the name of Montag's wife, who overdoses on sleeping pills.
Who is Mildred?
This natural substance that Clarisse says "tastes like wine", stands in contrast to the destructive fire Montag wields.
What is rain?
This type of vehicle is what young people race dangerously along the boulevards, per Clarisse
What are jet cars?
This is the number of capsules that had filled the crystal bottle Montag finds empty on the bedroom floor
What is thirty?
In this phrase, the uncle compares modern relationships to something disposable you use once and discard
What is a tissue?
This relative of Clarisse's was once arrested simply for walking, and jailed for driving forty miles an hour.
Who is her uncle?
This number, on Montag's helmet and sleeve and in the book's title, is the temperature paper burns at
What is 451?
This is the length billboards had to be stretched to, since cars now pass by too fast to read short ones
What is two hundred feet?
This is what the Mechanical Hound does when Montag touches its muzzle back at the firehouse
What is growl and extend its needle?
This is the last question Clarisse asks Montag before running off into the night
What is "Are you happy?"
This is Montag's given first name
What is Guy?
These tiny ear-radios Mildred sleeps with symbolize her total immersion in noise and disconnection from Montag
What are Seashells?
This is the era the uncle names when describing how "everyone" uses "everyone else's coattails"
What is "the age of the disposable tissue"?
This is what Montag suspects someone did to the Hound's chemical "memory" to make it react to him specifically
What is set a partial combination of amino acids against him?
This is the poet quoted in the book's epigraph, about writing the other way on ruled paper
Who is Juan Ramón Jiménez?