Fahrenheit 451 Flashcard Quiz

The protagonist, is a fireman, is middle-aged, and is Mildred's husband.

Montag's job as a fireman is to burn books. He does this by using an igniter and kerosene.

Clarisse McClellan is an outcast who thinks differently than everyone else and actually observes things. She is Montag's neighbor and she is sixteen.

<p>The society they live in is very fast-paced and no one stops to just take everything in and observe the little things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some people are afraid of firefighters because they burn books and don't care what or who is in the way of that goal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag compares the smell of kerosene to perfume.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mildred is Montag's wife who always has seashells in her ears. She overdosed on sleeping pills and technicians had to come to pump her blood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People attempting suicide in this society is so common that they are letting anyone work the machines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Parlor walls are TV walls and are interactive. Mildred watches the TV and acts as a part of the show.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mechanical hound is a robot dog. Its purpose is to hunt down and kill. It has a steel needle that injects morphine and is programmable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag is suspicious because the hound has gone after him before and thinks that it is programmed to kill him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clarisse's school and psychologist describe her as a regular onion and anti-social because she likes to talk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Captain Beatty is the captain of the firemen and is Montag's boss. He knows what he is doing is right and is hard-headed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Faber is a retired English professor. He is smart, cowardly, paranoid, and knows a lot about books.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To learn more about books, wanted advice, and wanted another copy of the book.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They plan to plant books in firemen's houses, turn on an alarm, and see the houses burn. I don't think it will work because they have to break into the houses and deal with families.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He rips the Bible pages out.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Antaeus was a great fighter, but Hercules beat him. Faber and Montag represent Hercules and Antaeus represents society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He doesn't want to listen to the advertisement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a walky-talky. It lets the two people communicate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He stole the Bible. It signifies that he will notice that the world now wasn't what God planned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He burned it because he was afraid they would alarm the firemen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag hides them in a bush.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag's wife and her friends call the alarms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He didn't run because he saw the Hound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He killed him to escape and to protect Faber.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag was becoming too overconfident like Phaeton.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He fell flat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is going to Faber's house to warn him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag wears dirty clothes, brings Faber's whiskey, and tells Faber to clean his house with alcohol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He goes to the river.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He meets writers and philosophers. They are like Montag and thinkers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He gives Montag colorless fluid which is supposed to change Montag's scent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>So it seems like they have won and to make the citizens stop worrying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They recite famous novels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They burn them so they don't get in trouble.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ecclesiastes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The men look poor, but they are really smart and well-educated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It got destroyed by the war and was engulfed in flames.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Build a mirror factory; they want to share their knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kerosene.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She overdosed on sleeping pills; tried to commit suicide.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She disappeared; she got hit by a car.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He knows that firemen always have an 'itch' to read; they are allowed to have them for 24 hours.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He ignores the doorbell and reads the book.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He reads a poem, Dover Beach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behind the fridge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He hands him a book.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Montag's.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A flamethrower.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He uses the flamethrower.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He jumps into the river and floats downstream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A colorless liquid that changes his chemical composition and changes his scent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bombing from the war.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>incapable of being explained or accounted for.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a feeling of righteous anger.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>pause or hold back.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>move hesitatingly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the state of being disregarded or forgotten.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>become smaller.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>an outline of a solid object.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>in a manner marked by keen caution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>move or draw together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>take action in return for a perceived wrong.</p> Signup and view all the answers