What is the situation when Mildred is first introduced in the novel?

What does Clarisse teach Montag to do?

What is ironic about Clarisse being so friendly with Montag?

What happened with the old woman who owned all of the books in the ancient part of the city?

When Captain Beatty went to Montag;s home to find out why Montag was not at work, what kind of car was Captain Beatty driving?

What rituals does this society observe upon a person’s death?

What did Montag hide behind the grille of the air-conditioning system that caused his wife to panic?

Why is Montag upset that bombers are always flying above his house?

After riding the vacuum-underground to get to Faber's house, what does Montag show him?

What does Faber give to Montag to wear so they can communicate?

What does Montag read to the women-Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles- who are visiting Mildred?

What is the name the firemen call their fire truck?

Who burned Montag's house and all of his books?

This is what Montag hears on the radio: "The Seashell hummed in his ear./"...watch for a man running...watch for the running man...watch for a man alone, on foot...watch..." Montag is the man. Why is he "running" from the authorities?

What did Faber own that was smaller than his hand, the size of a postcard?

How did Montag escape from the Mechanical Hound?

How did the police search for Montag end?

The men whom Granger is with are identified as what?

When Granger and the men are frying bacon after the war began and ended, what mythical creature does Granger talk about?

When Montag says, "Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while," it shows that Clarisse has had an effect on him.

How has Clarisse affected Montag?

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in this sentence: “I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames”?

Clarisse says, "Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time- did I tell you?- for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar."

What is NOT true about what is reveals about her family?

Here is a quote from Clarisse: “People don’t talk about anything. . . . They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”

What is NOT true about this?

Captain Beatty is quoted as saying, "There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time."

True or False? When Beatty says that people in society "can stay happy all the time" he means that people are so interested in popular culture, fitting in, and not having to think, that people are actually quite happy to be ignorant and uneducated.

When Montag says the following, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay from nothing," what is NOT true about this?

Alienation and loneliness is a theme that can be seen in this passage: “He [Montag] made more soft sounds. He stumbled toward the bed and shoved the book clumsily under the cold pillow. He fell into bed and his wife cried out startled. He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea.”

What is NOT true about this?

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use when Montag's bedroom is used to show how empty Montag's wife's and his lives are in this quote: "He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set"?

Why does Mildred say this to her husband about the old woman who was reported to authorities for having books?

“She's [the old woman] nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books. It was her responsibility, she should've thought of that. I hate her. She's got you going and next thing you know we'll be out, no house, no job, nothing."

In a conversation with Clarisse, Montag says, "Why is it that I feel I've known you so many years?"

What is NOT true about this?

Early in the novel, Montag says, “Kerosene is nothing but perfume to me.”

True or False? When Montag says this he enjoys the smell and is proud of being a fireman. However, he later becomes sick of the smell and finds his job to be distasteful.

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use when describing a room in this sentence: "The three empty walls of the room were like the pale brows of sleeping giants now, empty of dreams"?

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in this sentence: "The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentrifice Dentrifice Dentrifice, one two, one two three"?

Professor Faber says this, “It's as good as I remember. Lord, how they've changed it in our ‘parlors’ these days. Christ is one of the ‘family’ now. I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshiper absolutely needs.”

True or False? When Faber says this, he is commenting on how society still holds its religious values, putting a great deal of faith in God even though society does not read the Bible.

Using the same passage from Faber in the previous question, what is NOT true about it?

In this passage, Faber is being described: "The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years. He and the white plaster walls inside were much the same. There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there."

True or false? The direct characterization of Faber in this passage is used to show the reader how alert Faber is, how much his mind is always thinking, and how much he enjoys challenging society.

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in these lines: “Let the war turn off the ‘families.’ Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge”?

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in these lines: "The alarm-voice in the ceiling chanted. There was a taking-tacking sound as the alarm-report telephone typed out the address across the room."

When Faber says, "I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive," what is his point?

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in these lines when Montag is being compared to a squirrel? "Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?"

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in these lines: "He started at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun"?

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence: "There was a great hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove"?

In Greek mythology, Icarus was given wings by his father to escape Crete. The wings were made of feathers and wax. But in the myth, Icarus flew too close to the sun and melted the wax, which caused him to plunge into the sea. Knowing this, what kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in this sentence that Captain Beatty says: “[N]ow you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why”?

Regarding the quote from Captain Beatty in the previous question, is the following statement true or false?

It’s odd that Beatty knows so much about myths since he advocates burning books and not reading.

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence: "The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seems someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower"?

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence: "His mouth was sucked dry from running. His throat tasted of bloody iron"?

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence AND what kind of figurative language is used to enhance the imagery: "The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings of blaze with red and yellow feathers"?

1-visual imagery

2-tactile imagery

3- simile

4-metaphor

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence AND what kind of figurative language is used to enhance the imagery: "The pains were spikes driven in the kneecaps and then only darning needles and the only common ordinary safety pins, and after he had shacked up along fifty more hops and jumps, filling his hand with slivers from the board fence, the prickling was like someone blowing a spray of scalding water on that leg"?

1- visual imagery

2- tactile imagery

3- symbolism

4- metaphors

During his talk with Montag, Granger says about all of the men in exile with him, “We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.”

True or False? People who have memorized books – like in this example where people have memorized the Bible – support the concept that books connect people to well-rounded, fully-developed, and meaningful lives.

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this passage: "Montag caught it [the Mechanical Hound] with a bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog, clad it in a new covering as it slammed into Montag and threw him ten feet back against the bole of a tree, taking the flame gun with him"?