Fahrenheit 451 review game Flashcards
Montag’s 17 year old neighbor
Clarisse
Montag’s Wife
Mildred
Captain of the Fire Department
Beatty
The retired English Professor
Faber
One of the intellectual “hobos” or “vagabonds” Montag meets in the woods.
Granger
The firemen’s primary job is this.
Burning books
The robotic ‘creature’ injects morphine into Montag’s leg.
Mechanical hound
Montag is effected by this event when he is burning books.
A woman sets herself on fire with her books
Montag realizes Mildred is lacking this.
Emotions
The firemen’s job is to ensure the peoples’ ________________
Happiness
Teenagers’ favorite pastimes.
Driving too fast, killing people, sports, or destroying things?
The first American fireman.
Benjamin Franklin
The people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past. The population receives its whole worldview from this.
Television
The three things Faber says are missing from society.
Quality of information, the leisure to digest it, and the right to act based on the first two
Fahrenheit 451 expects its citizens to be _________________.
Conformists
“Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound around your place?”
Beatty
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores.”
Faber
“I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no.”
Clarisse
“My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh!”
Mildred
“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the 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
