Ray Bradbury
Character names
Allusions
Colors
Quotations
100
Before getting into writing, Bradbury planned to become this.
What is an actor?
100
This character's name means "light" and "clarity."
Who is Clarisse?
100
This six-legged creature is a symbol of the firemen.
What is the salamander?
100
This color is used to describe the technological elements in the novel.
What is silver?
100
Identify the character who said, “Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say.”
Who is Montag?
200
This book established Bradbury's success as a science fiction writer.
What is The Martian Chronicles?
200
This character's name is also the name of a pencil manufacturing company.
Who is Faber?
200
Humans built this in an attempt to reach Heaven.
What is the Tower of Babel?
200
Clarisse is associated with this color throughout the novel.
What is white?
200
Identify the character who said, “Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.”
Who is Clarisse?
300
Ray Bradbury still lives in this city.
What is Los Angeles?
300
Bradbury subconsciously named this character after a paper company.
Who is Montag?
300
This is the name of the body of water that is home to the Muses in Greek mythology and a fountain of knowledge.
What is the Pierian Spring?
300
This color is used to describe Mildred's lips and stresses how she is artificial.
What is red?
300
"Well, the crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times."
Who is Beatty?
400
Because Fahrenheit 451 was written in the 1950s, it reflects America's anxieties about this.
What is The Cold War?
400
This character's name is a reference to a movement for the advancement of farmers.
Who is Granger?
400
When the firemen arrive at Montag's house, Beatty refers to this myth.
What is Daedalus and Icarus?
400
The color pink is associated with which character's skin throughout the novel?
Who is Captain Beatty?
400
"When did we meet for what?"
Who is Mildred?
500
Bradbury worked on a TV series with this famous director.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
500
This character's name reflects the role the character plays at the end of the novel. Give the character name and the role.
Who is Guy (Montag) and what is guide?
500
These two men were burned for heresy in 1555 and this person refers to them.
Who are Latimer and Ridley; the old woman?
500
When Montag meets Faber for the first time, this color is associated with Faber and the setting.
What is green?
500
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
Who is Faber?
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