Show:
Plot Twists
The Book People
Events
Quotes
Figurative Language
100
The Mechanical Hound kills this person during the chase. It is broadcasted on the parlor walls.
Who is an innocent man?
100
Granger describes a magical bird in ancient stories that lives for 500 years, burns itself on a funeral pyre, and then is reborn from the ashes.
What is a Phoenix
100
This person phones in the alarm on Montag to Captain Beatty.
What is Mildred (and her friends)
100

This person said, "Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now...."

Who is Mildred

100

"He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back."   

What is a simile?

200
Montag kills Beatty with this.
What is a flame thrower?
200
What do the book people do with their books after they read them?
What is they burn them.
200
Montag remembers meeting Mildred here.
What is Chicago.
200

This person said, "What is there about fire that's so lovely? … Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences."

Who is Beatty

200

"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?"

What is a metaphor?

300

What are 20 million Montags?

It refers to the number of people watching TV in their parlor rooms and seeing Montag on TV.
300

Where do the "book people" keep the information from the books?

In their heads- they memorize them

300
Montag has to burn his house because he is afraid of this.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
300
"You always said, don't face a problem, burn it. Well, now I've done both.”
Who is Guy Montag?
300

"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world....."

What is personification?

400

Three things Montag took to throw off the scent from the mechanical hound.

What is whiskey, Faber's clothes and a valise (suitcase)?

400

What are the reasons that the "book people" do not carry books with them?

1. They are heavy and cumbersome

2. They might get lost or damaged

3. They run the risk of being caught with them and then facing punishment. 

400

Montag memorizes these to preserve them.

What are the Books of Revelation and Ecclesiastes?

400
This person said, "Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."
Who is Granger?
400

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven...a time to break down, and a time to build up."

What is allusion?

200 POINTS BONUS: Name where the reference came from


500

Granger says humankind is smarter than the Phoenix because of this reason.

What is we are able to learn from our mistakes and one day we will stop making "funeral pyres?"

500

The reasons the city does not bother about the Book People.

What is they are not a threat, and they don't care about them? 

500
Montag notices this about the fire when he meets Granger and his men.
What is a fire that is warming instead of destroying?
500

This person told Montag: "The city has never cared so much about us to bother with an elaborate chase like this to find us." 

Who is one of the Book People?

500

Fire, books and the Phoenix recur throughout the book causing us to think deeper about the story.  

What is a motif?