Wildcard
What is different about the fire Montag sees after he crosses the river?
It is providing warmth (giving) rather than burning things up (destroying/taking away).
What does Beatty say is the thing people want most out of life?
Happiness (to be happy)
What has replaced buttons in this society?
A zipper: "The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
What happens to Captain Beatty?
Montag kills him with a flamethrower that he was forced to use to burn his own house down.
What book did Montag's hand steal from the woman's house in Part 1?
The Bible; this is important because he has parts of the Bible stored in his mind that the men at the train tracks will want to access in order to restart society.
What self-destructs every couple of hundred years and then is reborn?
The Phoenix
What does Faber call himself when he and Montag first are talking at his house in part 2?
How do the authorities use someone else as a scapegoat in Part 3?
They sic the hound on some innocent man that is just walking the street and call out Montag's name; they "kill Montag" to avenge a crime against society.
What event happened that caused Montag to realize that there must be something more to books than he understood?
The woman struck the match and burned herself with her books and house.
Who said this quote AND who are they talking to?
“Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me...I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense”.
Montag is talking to Faber about how society is impacted by the overuse of technology.
Metaphor Alert! What moment from his childhood does Montag recall when he is trying to read and comprehend the information from the book?
The Sieve and the Sand: the idea is that if he can just read fast and all that he will be able to hold information in his brain; ultimately, he believes this to be an impossible task.
Who's life lesson is this: "it doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched into something that's like you after you take your hands away"?
Granger's grandfather.
How many of Clarisse's schoolmates have been killed (in total) according to her conversation with Montag in Part 1?
16; 6 were shot; 10 were killed in car wrecks
At the end of Part 2, when Montag pulls up to his own house in the firetruck, who does Beatty say called the alarm on him?
Mildred and her friends (Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles) all called in alarms separately.
“‘Hell!’ The operator’s cigarette moved on his lip. ‘We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built…all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half an hour. Look…we gotta go. Just got another call on the old ear-thimble. Ten blocks from here. Someone else just jumped off the cap of a pillbox. Call if you need us again’” (13).
What idea does this quote BEST connect to?
A) Lack of Technology
B) State of Happiness
C) Importance of Doctors
D) Signs of Conflict
B) State of Happiness
Who compared her kids to a load of laundry and said, "They'd just as soon kick as kiss me. Thank God, I can kick back!"?
Mrs. Bowles; clearly people in this society are so addicted to technology that they don't care about their connections with others.
The meaninglessness and purposelessness of the people is BEST demonstrated by what reoccurring issue in the text?
The suicidal tendencies in the novel (Mildred's overdose, the Seattle fireman, Mrs. Phelp's third husband).
There are a lot of distractions in this society: this question requires knowledge of two of those distractions. At the firehouse, how many times does the alarm bell "kick" when they have to go out on a call? What is the advertisement brand that is going off in the subway train?
The alarm bell kicks 200 times. The advertisement is for "Denham's Dentifrice" a dental detergent.
What does Granger compare the city to after the bombs go off?
A "heap of baking powder"
Fill in the blanks: (must have all three correct)
Beatty says, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born _____ and _____, as the _____________ says, but everyone made equal. Each man the very image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.”
Beatty says, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the very image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.”
Beatty is discussing how conflict among people in the society is harmful.
What 3 things does Faber say are lacking in their society in Part 2 when he is talking to Montag?
Quality of information, leisure, and the right to act on the interaction of the first two.
When Montag reflects that their society has "started an won two atomic wars since 2022" what three reasons does he suspect might be the reason for the conflict between the societies?
1) the world works hard while they play
2) they are rich and the rest of the world is poor
3) they were having so much fun they forgot about the rest of the world
What are the TWO reasons that the handymen said the society built a special machine to pump someone's stomach?
1) There were 9-10 overdoses a night, so they needed something portable.
2) No MD was needed for these cases; a simple handyman would do.
According to Granger, what do they need to do before rebuilding society AND how long is this going to take?
"Build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them".
He understands the importance of critically thinking about where they have come from and what has been done in the past in order to move forward.
Granger says "But that's the wonderful thing about man..." in Part 3. What is the wonderful thing about man?
"But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing”.
Humanity doesn't give up as long as something is deemed worth fighting for.