"The Hearth and the Salamander"

Character Identification: A fireman who burns books for a living. Initially content with his job, but begins questioning his role in society.

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Character Identification: Seventeen-years-old, "odd" character who makes Montag think differently about life through their conversations.

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Character Identification: The fire chief, well-read but committed to censorship.

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Character Identification: Montag's wife, consumed by television and radio, disconnected from reality.

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Identify the speaker: "Are you happy?"

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Identify the speaker: “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy."

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Identify the speaker: “It’s fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ’em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”

• Clarisse
• Mildred
• Guy Montag
• Beatty
• the Hound

Identify the character being described and the literary technique used in the description. "...she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began."

• Clarisse; onomatopoeia
• Mildred; simile
• Guy Montag; repetition
• Clarisse; simile
• Mildred; metaphor

Identify the character being described and the literary technique. "...uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable."

• Clarisse; onomatopoeia
• Mildred; alliteration
• Guy Montag; repetition
• Clarisse; simile
• Mildred; simile

Identify the speaker: ““I don’t know anything anymore."

• Guy Montag
• Mildred
• Beatty
• Clarisse
• the Hound