Characters
Who Says
Hearth and Salamander
Sieve and Sand
Burning
100
The main character of the story who is a Fireman.
Who is Montag?
100

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Montag

100
The items that Montag is responsible for burning.
What are books?
100
Mildred's response to Montag's small collection of books.
What is sad (or mad)?
100
The woman caught with books did this when the firemen arrived.
What is stay in the house (or burn with her books)?
200
The wife of the main character. She enjoys watching her shows on the wall.
Who is Mildred?
200

“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.”

Faber

200
A place that is burned along with books by the firemen.
What is the house?
200
Mildred's favorite TV character.
What is the White Clown?
200
Montag was told that this happened to Clarisse.
What is run over by a car (or found dead)?
300
The fire captain. Tells Montag that all firemen go through a mid-life crisis.
Who is Captain Beatty?
300

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war."

Beatty

300
Montag's initial reaction to burning books and homes.
What is happy?
300
The name of an old man who Montag encounters and has a conversation with about books.
Who is Faber?
300
The book that Montag saved and decided to memorize before turning it in.
What is the Bible?
400
Montag's teenage neighbor that makes Montag question his own job.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
400

"Christ is one of the ‘family’ now. I often wonder it God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs."

Faber

400
One of three answers: What does Montag not realize about history?
What is 1. People talked to each other instead of their walls at home 2. Firemen used to put out fires and not start them 3. Billboards were only 20 feet long.
400
Montag is scared that this character will charge him with keeping books.
Who is Captain Beatty?
400
This type of "hound" tracks down criminals and tranquilizes them.
What is Mechanical?
500
Mildred's name for the people in her 3 wall television.
What is Family?
500

"You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow."

Clarisse

500
Montag finds Mildred at home but unconscious. Mildred had taken several tranquilizers which caused her to do this.
What is overdose?
500
This tool is used to drain water from sand or other types of minerals.
What is a sieve?
500
This is the reason why society burns books.
What is censorship (or not allowing people to think for themselves)?
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