Background and Basics
He wrote Fahrenheit 451
Who is Ray Bradbury?
The symbols on the fireman's truck and uniforms.
What are the phoenix and the salamander?
Montag calls him after he reveals his books to Mildred.
Who is Faber?
Montag discovers that this person turned him in.
Who is Mildred?
Montag makes sure to take these with him before fleeing.
What are books?
The temperature that paper/books burn.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
Who is the parlor family?
Montag reads this on his way to Faber's house.
What is the Bible?
He is the leader of the "book people."
Who is Granger?
The Mechanical Hound kills him instead of Montag to keep the audience engaged.
Who is an innocent man?
This is the genre of F451.
What is science fiction?
She makes Montag think about the power of books.
Who is the woman who was burned with her books?
Faber gives this to Montag before he leaves his house.
What is an earpiece?
Faber tells Montag to go to these places when he's fleeing.
What are the river and railroad tracks?
Montag says this right before killing Beatty.
What is "we never burned right"?
The setting of the story.
What is America?
The reason Beatty says fireman started to burn books.
What is happiness?
The event that leads Montag to get turned in to the fireman.
What is reading poetry to Mildred and her friends?
Montag changes his mind about this at the end of the story.
What is fire?
Where the retired printer lives .
What is St. Louis?
What are Hearth and Salamander, Sieve and the Sand, and Burning Bright?
Clarisse rubs this under Montag's chin to see if he's really in love with someone.
What is a dandelion?
Montag asks Mildred and her friends about these two topics.
What are politics and their families?
The part of the Bible Montag is responsible for.
What is Ecclesiates?
He is compared to Mildred at the end of the story.
Who is Granger's grandfather?