Vocabulary
Plot
Symbols
Obscure
Literary & Historical Allusions
100

To wear
Formal; old fashioned

Clad

100

What does Clarisse rub on Montag's chin?

A dandelion

100

Rebirth through fire

Phoenix

100

What is significant about the number 451?

It's the temperature that burns books.
100

Who wrote the Allegory of the Cave?

Plato

200

The candle slowly burned down to nothing.
It __________.

Dwindled

200

What object is proof of Faber's terrible cowardice?

The green seashell

200

Natural rebirth through healing and remembrance 

The River

200

What is the name of the brand that gets stuck in Montag's head?

Denham's Dentrifice

200

What is the first book Montag tries to read on the train?

The Book of Job

300

The seashelled sleep of Mildred

Oblivion

300

What does Montag pour on his clothes to escape the Hound?

Whiskey

300

Struggling to gain knowledge

The Sieve and the Sand

300
How many atomic wars have there been since 2022?
Two
300

What is the name of the WWI poem that Montag quotes to Mildred and her friends?

Dover Beach /
The Sea of Faith

400

The books were the matyr's funeral ______

Pyre

400

According to Faber, what three things are needed?

1) Quality material
2) Leisure to digest it
3) Freedom to act

400

Self-awareness

Mirror

400

Who was the first fireman?

Benjamin Franklin

400

What is the anti-communist political "witch hunt" of the 1950s that Bradbury opposed? 

McCarthyism

500

What Master Ridley was matyred for?

Heresy

500

What two Bible books does Montag memorize?

Ecclesiastes and Revelations

500
Obliviousness/Adaptation to Problems  

The Salamander

500

What is the White Clown?

A TV show

500

What is the name of the post-WWII anti-isolation poem written by Martin Niemoller?

First They Came

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