1. What is the name of the author of Fahrenheit 451?
   Ray Bradubury

2. What is the significance of “451”?
   paper burns at this temperature

3. What is the name of the protagonist of the story (first and last name)?
   Guy Montag

4. What is the protagonist’s occupation? How are his duties different than they would be today?
   Montag is a fireman he burns books instead of putting fires out.

5. According to the protagonist, what smells like perfume?
   Kerosene

6. Who is Clarisse McClellan (age, association to protagonist, and what makes her unique)?
   Clarisse Mckellen is a 16 year old girl (told Montag she was 17). She is Montag's crazy neighbor. What makes her unique is that she's very talkative, but she knows her surroundings and the true meaning of life.

7. What does Clarisse say about people?
   people don’t slow down

8. What does the protagonist find strange about Clarisse’s family?
   That they sit around and talk

9. Describe the differences between the protagonist’s home and the McClellan’s home.
   Montag's house is dark and boring/depressing, tomb like. Clarisse’s house is nice, bright, and friendly

10. Who is Mildred?
    Montag's wife

11. What happened to Mildred in the story? How was this situation handled?
    She overdosed on sleeping pills. Two men came and pumped her stomach and replaced her blood

12. What is against the law to do in this dystopian society?
    Reading is against the law

13. Which of Clarisse’s relatives influenced her the most?
    Her uncle

14. What are the earplug radios in the novel called?
    Seashell Radios

15. What animal metaphor does Montag use to describe the stomach pump and blood-replacement machine used on Mildred?
    Snake

16. What did Mildred say happened to Clarisse McClellan?
    Said she got run over by a car and died.

17. What has Montag so worked up that he wants to quit his job?
    He's traumatized by the last fire because an old lady lit herself on fire

18. Give a thorough description of the Hound.
    The hound helps the government by tracking or chasing prey. It has a four inch hollow steel needle, eight legs, and rubber padded paws

19. Clarisse claims the school does not want her in attendance because she is “anti-social”. What is the real reason they do not want her there?
    They don't want her there because she talks to people and asks questions

20. Why does Montag’s mind keep going to the ventilator grille?
    He feels guilty for hiding books behind it

21. What did Montag hide under his pillow? Where did he get it?
    He is hiding a book that he stole from the old lady’s house under his pillow

22. What was different about the last fire Montag and the firemen set (it didn’t follow the standard process)?
    They got there before the police

23. Guy and Mildred Montag have been married for ten years; however, neither of them can remember what?
    They couldn’t remember when or where they first met

24. Clarisse asked Montag "why you haven't any daughters like me, if you love children so much?". What was Montag’s response?
    Mildred didn’t want any children

25. Who are the “relatives”?
    The people on the television program Mildred watches

26. How did Captain Beatty know Montag was going to be “sick”, especially after Montag didn’t call in to tell him?
    Captain Beatty and other firemen go through the same thing

27. Why does Montag say he became a fireman?
    His father and grandfather were firemen

28. Instead of feeling any kind of sympathy for Montag, Mildred was more concerned about what?
    Her “Family”

29. How does Mildred react when Montag confronts her about her suicide attempt?
    She doesn’t believe she overdosed

30. According to Clarisse, how can you tell if you are in love?
    You get a dandelion and rub it on your chin and if it rubs off it means you are in love

31. Who or what is scratching at Montag’s door? Why is Montag so terrified of what lies behind it?

The hound is scratching his door he was scared because he didn’t wanna get caught with the books

PART II

32. Describe the character Montag met at the green park over a year ago. What was their career before they retired?

He is an old man named Faber, he is a retired english professor

33. What book did we discover that Montag took from the old lady’s house a few nights ago?

The Bible

34. According to the character Montag met at the park, why are books hated and feared?

The show the truth of life

35. Name another book that has been mentioned in Fahrenheit 451.
    My Favorite Subject, Myself.

36. How does Montag convince the person he met in the park to teach him?

He tears pages out of the bible. He is kind of manipulating Faber in a way

PART III

37. How does Beatty describe fire?
    Its a real beauty that destroys responsibilities and consequences

38. How does Beatty task Montag with burning his own house down?
    He gives Montag the Flamethrower

39. How does Montag get injured from The Mechanical Hound? How does he solve his problem?
    The mechanical hound stuns him in the leg with its procaine needle. He goes to the river and changes into Faber's clothes and jumps in and gets swept away.

40. According to Montag, who wanted to die?
    Captain Beatty

41. True or False, War has been declared?
    True

42. What connection does Montag make between the car that almost hit him and Clarisse?
    The car’s passengers are children who would have killed him for no reason at all. He wondered angrily that they were the motorist that killed Clarisse

43. How do the police suggest the population help with the search for Montag?
    Open the doors and look outside at the same time

44. What does Montag see in the forest staring back at him? Why is he afraid?
    A deer and he was thinking it was the hound

45. Describe the liquid Granger asks Montag to drink. (The color, What it does, and the

Taste)
It was a colorless, bitter fluid that changes the chemical index of his perspiration
    45. How do the police “catch” Montag?
They don't catch Montag they catch an innocent man that they claim is montag and kill him

46. What book from The Bible does Montag hand over to Granger’s group?

The book of Ecclesiastes

47. How do the members of the group “read” books?
They remember books

48. Name the three people Montag thinks about as he watches the city?

Clarisse, Faber, and Mildred

49. What remains of the city at the end of the book? What caused this?

An atomic bomb hit the city, nothing remained but rubble.

50. What creature does fire remind Granger of?

The phoenix bird, Rise from the ashes