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Quotations
The Cowardly Professor Faber
The Awakening Montag
The Selfish Mildred
Plot, Themes, & Symbols
100

 "That favorite subject, Myself."

Who is Mildred?

100

A coward.

What does Faber consider himself?

100
Montag's own house.
What is the fire alarm called to?
100

They don't care if their husbands die as they can always get another one.

What is Mildred's friends reaction to their husbands going off to war?

100

The book of the bible Faber reads to Montag.

What is the book of Job?

200
"Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!"
What is Mildred's reaction to Montag reading from a book?
200
To plant books in firemen's houses and call alarms on them.
What is Guy and Faber's plan?
200

Screams, yells, and kicks them out.

How does Montag react when the women cry and scream about the poem?
200
Mildred's friends who have come over to watch television with her.
Who are Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles?
200

Screams shut-up and talk louder.

How does Montag behave while riding the subway to Faber's house?

300

"Do you know why books are so important... this book has pores?

Who is Faber?

300
To force and persuade Faber to teach Montag.
Why does Montag begin ripping pages from the Bible?
300

"Denham's Dentifrice"

What advertisement distracts Montag while riding the train?

300
"Dover Beach"
What poem does Montag read aloud to Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles?
300

Goodness, rebirth, destruction.

What is fire?

400

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."

Who is Montag?

(Technically, what does Montag read and thinks of Clarisse?)

400

English and Literature.

What subjects did Faber teach?

400

The poem Montag reads to Mildred and her friends.

What is "Dover Beach"?

400
No one in their right mind would have any.
What is Mrs. Bowles' opinion on having children?
400

Searching for the intangible truth; the truth Montag feels is impossible to grasp.

What is the sieve and the sand?

500

"You see? I knew it, that's what I wanted to prove! I knew it would happen! I've always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush! Now I've had it proved to me. You're nasty, Mr. Montag, you're nasty!"

Who is Mrs. Bowles?

500

The green bullet.

What is Faber's invention?

500

On a park bench.

Where do Montag and Faber meet?

500
"The Outs"
What political party did presidential candidate Mr. Hoag belong to?
500

Spread propaganda, are evil, sensitize people.

What are books?