Characters
This person is the catalyst for the protagonist beginning to question who he is and why his society is the way that it is.
Who is Clarisse?
The action of murdering Beatty is this stage of the plot of the story.
What is the climax of the story?
This is the significance of the title of the book.
What is the temperature at which books burn?
This is the significance of the ventilator grill.
What is the place Montag hides his contraband books?
This is the author's name.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This person disappears after reporting their spouse to the firemen.
Who is Mildred Montag?
This is the refrain on the train.
What is Denham's Dentrifice?
This is an important theme of the book. (There are multiple possible answers.)
What is:
- Don't be selfish.
- Always ask questions.
- Knowledge is power.
- Help people whenever you can.
- Trust but verify.
(These are just examples of possible answers)
These are the symbols that the firemen in the story adopt for themselves and their group.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY if you can name all three!
What are salamanders, phoenixes, and the number 451?
This is the genre of the story.
What is dystopian?
This person is the protagonist's boss. We learn that this person wants to die near the end of the book.
Who is Captain Beatty?
This is the metaphor that Montag creates when he's trying to read and memorize the Bible on the subway.
What is, the mind is a sieve - it can't hold any information?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is the symbol for self-awareness throughout the book. (DJ if you can give evidence from the story.)
What is a mirror?
What is Clarisse, what is Granger saying they'll build a mirror, what is Montag thinking about mirrors?
This is the reason that Montag gets caught.
What is Beatty notices Mildred finding the book behind Montag?
This is how Montag eventually escapes the firemen and the Hound.
What is the river?
This person used to be a professor of English, and does what they can to support the efforts of the protagonist's fight to free knowledge.
Who is Faber?
This is the allusion that the martyr makes before and during her death.
What is Latimer and Ridley starting a rebellion being burned at the stake in 1555 England?
This is the metaphor that Granger creates to represent their society.
What is the phoenix being constantly reborn?
Montag is afraid of this feature of the firehouse.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
This is what Mildred calls the television programs and characters she watches.
This person meets the protagonist outside of the city and is the leader of a group of people who work to find, memorize, and burn books in order to preserve knowledge.
Who is Granger?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is the goal of the firemen throughout the whole story. (DJ if you can name how the gov't/society tries to make this happen - not how the firemen make it happen.)
What is to make sure everyone is happy all the time?
What is by dumbing everything down and making it faster?
This is the theme we've talked about the most. (I am looking for ONE specific theme.)
What is, ignorance is not bliss, aka: Knowledge is important to a successful society?
This person is the protagonist of the story who endures challenges as this person tries to figure out who they are and the meaning of their society.
Who is Guy Montag?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: These people are the reasons that Montag begins to question everything. (DJ for also saying what they did)
Who are Clarisse and Mildred?
What is asking him if he is happy and what is ODing?