Characters
The main character who becomes conflicted about his life as a fireman.
Who is Guy Montag?
This character spends most of the time watching the parlor walls and listening to seashell radios.
Who is Mildred?
Captain Beatty is killed by Montag using this.
What is a flame thrower?
The temperature at which paper burns.
What is 451 degrees?
Mildred cannot answer this question and says that she "doesn't remember".
What is "Where/How did we meet?"
Who is Clarisse?
This character is a retired English professor who helps Montag but views himself as a coward.
Who is Faber?
This shocking event caused Montag to realize the value of books.
What is the woman choosing to burn alive with her books/house.
This device allows Faber and Montag to communicate with each other when they are apart.
What is the electronic earpiece shaped like a bullet?
This machine is used to hunt down citizens who break the law.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
This character is well-read and uses his book knowledge to frustrate Montag.
Who is Beatty
These characters call in the final alarm for Montag's house to be burned down.
Who are Mildred and her friends?
This causes Mrs. Phelps to sob out of pure emotion.
What is Montag's reading of poetry?
This is the meaning of the symbolism of the Phoenix.
To escape the second Mechanical Hound, Montag jumps into the river and puts on this.
This character plants a book in another fireman's house in order to frame him.
Who is Montag?
This character informed Montag that firemen used to put out fires instead of starting fire.
Who is Clarisse?
Montag and the group of homeless intellectuals witness the city being destroyed by this.
What are bombs?
A group of homeless intellectuals.
Who are the Book People?
The Mechanical Hound tracks people using this.
What is their unique chemical scent profile?
The leader of the countryside group of Book People.
Who is Granger?
What is controversy, offensiveness, and unhappiness.
Montag hides books in his own house behind this.
What is the ventilator grille?
Faber states that people need more than just book. They need these three things:
What are quality information, freedom to act, and leisure.
Montag memorized this book from the Bible.
What is Ecclesiastes?