Clarisse tells Montag the she is this age, though she claims to be "crazy".
What is seventeen?
Drivers go so fast that these advertising signs had to be lengthened from twenty feet two hundred feet long.
What are billboards?
Montag claims this substance smells like perfume to him.
What is kerosene?
When Montag gets home after the woman burns with her books, he hides the stolen book under this part of his bed.
What is his pillow?
According to Clarisse, this number of her friends died in car wrecks over the past year.
What is ten?
Clarisse says children her age go to these places at night to break things or race.
What are car wrecks?
This object was used by the old woman on her front porch to ignite the kerosene and burn her house down.
What is an ordinary kitchen match?
Mildred constantly wears these small ear devices that fill her ears with endless streams of sound.
What are seashell radios?
Clarisse tells Montag she rarely watches these because she prefers to go out on long walks and observe people instead.
What are TV parlor walls?
Emergency medical calls for overdoses are so common in this society that they are answered by handymen instead of these professionals.
What are doctors?
The official firemen rulebook states Rule 1 is to answer the alarm swiftly, and Rule 2 is to do this immediately.
What is burn everything?
Mildred wants to spend $2,000 to buy a fourth one of these.
What is a TV parlor wall?
Clarisse asks Montag this disturbing three word question before running into her house, leaving him speechless.
what is "are you happy?"
Clarisse mentions that her uncle was arrested once for driving too slowly at this speed.
What is forty miles per hour?
The firemen play games releasing these animals into the firehouse betting on which ones the hound will catch first.
What are rats, cats, and chickens?
Mildred calls the people on her parlor wall TV screen by this title
who are the Relatives?
Clarisse tells Montag that dry leaves smell like this spice.
What is cinnamon?
Clarisse describes school as hours of sports, TV, and film, including one hour of this type of history class.
What is transcription history?
Montag worries someone messed with the Hound's memory, but Beatty says the Hound only knows these three basic electrical inputs.
What is copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity?
Montag feels like he is drowning in noise when Mildred turns on the parlor wall, describing the overwhelming room noise as this seven-letter word.
What is Cacophony?