Characters
Who is Montag’s fire chief and main antagonist?
Who is Captain Beatty?
What is Montag’s job at the beginning of the novel?
What is a fireman who burns books?
What does fire symbolize at the beginning of the novel?
What is destruction or censorship?
The temperature at which book paper burns.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
"Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything".
Who is Mildred?
Who is Montag’s wife who spends most of her time watching the parlor walls?
Who is Mildred?
Who does Montag meet on his walk home that makes him question his happiness?
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
What does fire symbolize at the end of the novel?
What is warmth, rebirth, or renewal?
During what decade was the novel written?
What is the 1950s?
"You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you."
Who is Clarisse?
Who is the young woman who opens Montag’s eyes to the beauty of the world and new ideas?
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
What happens to Mildred early in the novel that requires emergency help?
What is she overdoses on sleeping pills
What does the Phoenix symbolize?
What is humanity’s ability to rebuild after destruction?
The test Clarisse uses to tell if someone is in love.
What is rubbing a dandelion under your chin?
"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books".
Who is Faber?
Who helps Montag escape the city and teaches him about the importance of books?
Who is Faber?
What event causes Montag to question his job and society most deeply?
What is the old woman burning herself with her books?
What does the “sieve and the sand” symbolize?
What is trying to grasp and retain knowledge?
The three things Faber says are missing from society.
What is quality of information, the leisure to digest it, and the right to act based on the first two?
"Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel".
Who is Beatty?
Who represents hope and rebirth at the novel’s end?
Who are Granger and the “book people”?
How does Montag escape the city?
What is by following the river and the railroad tracks to the countryside?
What does the river represent in Montag’s journey?
What is cleansing, escape, or transformation?
Montag read this poem to Mildred and her friends, which showed them their ignorance.
What is "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold?
"We're going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors of the next year and take a long look in them".