Characters
Her interaction with Montag encourages him to start questioning things, later dies from a car accident
Clarisse
Fahrenheit 451 is considered a ______ novel because it is a cautionary tale of a possible future in which citizens are ruled by a corrupt government or suppressed by the society as a whole.
dystopian
What is the name of the homeless wanderers that Montag meets outside the city?
Intellectuals
Bradbury portrays the theme of Conformity vs. Individuality when ____.
Teacher choice if your response is correct
What does Montag secretly hide in his air conditioning vents at home?
Books
Who is the final informant to call the alarm on Montag’s home?
Mildred
Pairs of characters like Clarisse and Mildred or Beatty and Faber represent opposite concepts in the novel, known as?
Foils
What is Mildred’s relationship with the people she watches on her TV?
She sees them as her “family” and interacts with them more than her own husband.
Bradbury portrays the theme of ____ when Beatty describes how society itself was responsible for the cutting down of quality information until books became practically.
Distraction vs. Happiness
OR
Dissolution of Family Life
At the end of the novel, Granger compares society to a mythological bird called a ____ which is a symbol of rebirth.
Who seems to have a personal knowledge of a good many books; later taunts Montag into killing him on purpose?
Captain Beatty
Granger uses a powerful ____________ when he says, “City looks like a heap of baking-powder. It's gone."
Simile
During the manhunt for Montag by the Hound, why does the camera identify an innocent man as Montag?
The police need to fake Montag’s capture so that they will not look foolish on TV.
Bradbury portrays the theme of ____ when Mildred and her friends are mesmerized by a TV show filled with loud music and blaring images in which nothing actually happens.
Distraction vs. Happiness
OR
Dissolution of Family Life
When Bradbury first introduces Mildred, Montag kicks a(n) _____ under her bed, which is a symbol of hopelessness and despair.
empty pill bottle
Whose a sculptor, a kind man, was always busy with his hands
Granger’s grandfather
Bradbury uses ____ characterization to compare the very different actions of his two main female characters: Clarisse takes pre-dawn walks, and Mildred watches endless hours of TV.
Indirect
What behavior suggests that Captain Beatty is self-contradictory?
He insists that books are inherently dangerous, but he is able to quote literature extensively.
“And it was indeed remarkable. Something had happened. Even though the people in the walls of the room had barely moved, and nothing had really been settled, you had the impression that someone had turned on a washing-machine or sucked you up in a gigantic vacuum. You drowned in music and pure cacophony.” This quote demonstrates the theme of _________________.
Distraction vs. Happiness
The _________ represents truth because it reveals to Montag that he is in a loveless marriage.
Dandelion
Who introduces himself as Plato’s Republic?
Granger
In the following simile, Bradbury compares what two things? “Montag’s hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.” _____________________
Montag's hand and a mouth
What is different about the fire Montag sees after he gets out of the river?
It is giving off warmth and comfort, not destroying things.
Beatty says to Montag, “Words are like leaves and where they abound the most, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.” This shows that Beatty believes reading is ____________________ which illustrates the theme of ___________________.
Dangerous/Confusing
&
Censorship/Power of Books
The old lady’s kitchen match is a symbol of ____.
Rebellion