Vocabulary
Plot Diagram
Montag
The Book People
Miscellaneous
100
Dirty or impure
What is contaminated?
100
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic American city.
What is the exposition?
100
Responsible for the first alarm to Montag's house.
Who is Mildred's friends?
100
Teachers and authors who had to escape the authorities
Who are the hobos that Montag met?
100
Everything was destroyed by bombs.
What is what happened to the city during the war?
200
A large, unstoppable force
What is juggernaut?
200
Montag kills Captain Beatty with a flamethrower and burns him (Captain Beatty) to ashes.
What is the climax?
200
The setting at the beginning of Part 3.
What is Montag's house?
200
They wanted to learn from previous mistakes and always to remember
What is the mission of Montag and the Book People after the war?
200
It represents a new beginning, safety, warmth and peace
What is the symbolism of the campfire?
300
Describing a light that glows in the dark without heat
What is phosphorescent?
300
Montag and his new friends search for survivors and rebuild civilization after the city is destroyed by bombs.
What is the resolution?
300
The police didn't want to admit that Montag outsmarted them.
What is the reason an innocent man was killed during the chase?
300
Everyone must leave something behind when they die.
What is Granger's philosophy?
300
Railroad tracks
What is the path to safety that Montag took?
400
Of or relating to art or beauty
What is aesthetic?
400
Montag visits Professor Faber and learns that the value of books lies in the detailed awareness of life that they contain.
What is the rising action?
400
Beatty was aware that Montag was wearing a radio transmitter, and he was determined to find out who was on the other end.
What is the reason Montag killed Beatty?
400
Each man had memorized a piece of literature to be written down at a later time.
What is the way the Book People preserved literature?
400
Knowledge versus Ignorance
What is the theme of Fahrenheit 451?
500
A pile of wood for burning a dead body
What is pyre?
500
Montag finds a group of renegade intellectuals/book lovers who have memorized many great works of literature and philosophy.
What is falling action?
500
Whiskey, Faber's clothes and a valise (suitcase)
What are things Montag took to throw off the scent from the mechanical hound?
500
Granger
What is the name of the leader of The Book People?
500
The Book of Ecclesiastes
What is the book of the Bible that Montag memorized?
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