CharactersTrue or False?Quotes MORE Characters Literary Terms

Characters for 100 This character feels an internal conflict about his profession

Characters for 100 Guy Montag

Characters for 200 This character is knowledgeable about books even though he prevents others from reading them

Characters for 200 Captain Beatty

Characters for 300 This person has no hope of resolving the conflict within herself; she is shallow and is addicted to Seashell ear thimbles

Characters for 300 Mildred

Characters for 400 This character provides a support system for Montag; he “talks the meaning of things”

Characters for 400 Faber

Characters for 500 This character is “alive, but not alive”

Characters for 500 The Mechanical Hound

Characters for 600 This character’s actions make Montag rethink his profession and cause him to become physically ill

Characters for 600 The Old Woman who burned her home

True or False for 100 Clarisse and her family like to stay up late and play hide and seek.

T/F for 100 False They stay up and talk

True or False for 200 Faber is a retired English professor.

T/F for 200 True He lost his job when the university experienced a lack of students and patronage.

True or False for 300 Captain Beatty does not know Montag is hiding books until the beginning of Part III.

T/F for 300 False He knows even when he visits Montag at his home.

True or False for 400 Montag’s bedroom can be described as cold and uninviting.

T/F for 400 True It is described like a “mausoleum.”

True or False for 500 Montag begins to read books because he is bored.

T/F for 500 False He reads books because he wants to know what knowledge they contain.

T/F for 600 Faber says the three things lacking in modern society are: quality information, leisure, and the opportunity to run for public office.

T/F for 600 False Quality, leisure, and the opportunity to act on what one has learned

Quotes for 100 “At least once in his career, every fireman gets the itch. So, we usually let the fireman keep it for 24 hours.”

Quotes for 100 The itch is symbolic of a desire to read books. Beatty suspects that Montag is hiding books.

Quotes for 200 “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?”

Quotes for 200 Clarisse asks Montag this ironic question.

Quotes for 300 “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.”

Quotes for 300 Beatty says this to Montag as he explains the “history” of the firemen. He believes books are dangerous and harmful.

Quotes for 400 “Sure, she will be okay. We got out all the mean stuff right here, it can’t hurt her now. As I said, you take out the old and put in the new. Well, now someone else just jumped off the cap of a pillbox. Call us if you need us again. Keep her quiet.”

Quotes for 400 The men who pump out Mildred—shows their indifferent attitudes

Quotes for 500 “Picture it, in the 19 th Century man had horses, dogs, carts, and slow motion. Then, in the 20 th Century, speed up your camera. Books were cut shorter. Everything gets boiled down to shorter versions. Impatience. Banning books didn’t come from the government.”

Quotes for 500 Beatty—He explains that the people themselves were responsible for the banning of books

Quotes for 600 “Colored people don’t like the book called Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t like the book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone has written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs, and the cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Funerals also make people unhappy. So, eliminate them too.” What is the meaning of this quote?

Quotes for 600 Beatty--People stopped reading books because the content was controversial and made them unhappy.

MORE Characters for 100 This character is “seventeen and insane.”

MORE Characters for 100 Clarisse

MORE Characters for 200 This character says children are “ruinous.”

MORE Characters for 200 Mrs. Phelps

MORE Characters for 300 This character welcomes Montag into his group after Montag escapes the city.

MORE Characters for 300 Granger

MORE Characters for 400 This character is reportedly killed by a speeding car.

MORE Characters for 400 Clarisse

MORE Characters for 500 This character recalls going to the beach and attempting to fill a sieve with sand.

MORE Characters for 500 Montag

MORE Characters for 600 This “character” represents humanity’s ability to be reborn.

MORE Characters for 600 The Phoenix

Literary Terms for 100 “Remember the newspaper dying like huge moths.” This is an example of which term?

Literary Terms for 100 Simile

Lit. Terms for 200 “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner…” This is an example of which term?

Alliteration Lit. Terms for 200

Literary Terms for 300 “His eyes were beginning to feel hunger.”

Literary Terms for 300 Personification

Literary Terms for 400 “The dead beast, the living beast”

Literary Terms for 400 Oxymoron

Literary Terms for 500 “Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.”

Literary Terms for 500 Metaphor

Literary Terms for 600 The Phoenix

Literary Terms for 600 Allusion