| Identify Guy Montag and describe his job. | Guy Montag is a fireman, a person who finds books and burns them. |
| Describe Clarisse McClellan. | She is an unusual person, a seventeen year old girl who liked to think and talk. She is labeled as antisocial. |
| What smelled like perfume to Montag? | The kerosene smelled like perfume to him. |
| Clarisse asked Montag if he was happy. Was he? | No, no he was not. |
| Who is Mildred, and what happened to her? | Mildred is Montag’s wife. She had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Her stomach and blood had to be pumped clean. |
| Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of doctors to treat Mildred? | Suicide by this method was so common that technician-operated machines were developed to treat the patient. |
| What are parlor-walls? | They are a kind of surround-television with which the audience can interact. (The Family, Relative) [Filled with violent nonsense] {Always on} |
| Describe the mechanical hound. | It is a robot type of dog with eight legs, equipped with a steel needle, and programmed through the chemical balance of a person or thing to hunt and kill. |
| What did Montag believe had been done to the hound? | He believed that a fireman programmed the hound with a partial bit of his chemical balance to act against him, but not quite kill him. |
| Why was Clarisse considered anti-social? | She was part of the old society where talking and thinking were appreciated. |
| Who gave Clarisse most of her information about the way life used to be? | Her uncle did. |
| Who was Captain Beatty? | He was Montag’s boss at the firehouse. He is very literate and well read and knows and can recite books. |
| How did the firemen know which houses had books? | Neighbors, friends, and family members became informants and telephoned the information to the firemen. |
| What lie did Captain Beatty tell Montag? | He told Montag that firemen had never been used to prevent fires, only to start them, and that Benjamin Franklin was the first fireman. |
| What did Montag do in the old lady’s attic? | He took a book. |
| Why were the alarms to burn always at night? | The fires were prettier to watch and provided more of a show at night. |
| Why did the old woman light the match and commit suicide? | She felt like life was not worth living without her books. |
| What happened to Clarisse? Was it an accident? | A car hit her. The elimination of Clarisse was a part of the on-going operation of destroying the old society. |
| What was Montag afraid Captain Beatty would discover when he came to visit? | He was afraid the captain would find the book he had taken from the old woman’s attic. |
| Why did Captain Beatty believe books should be destroyed? | He thought that they put upsetting thoughts in people’s minds and kept them from being happy and satisfied. They contradict themselves. |
| What did Montag show Mildred after the captain had left the house? | He showed her the books he had been stealing and hiding in the ventilator grill in his house. |
| Who was Faber? | He was a retired English professor Montag had met in the park. |
| Why did Montag go to see Faber? | He needed a duplicate copy of the stolen book before he returned the original to Captain Beatty. |
| What three elements did Faber feel were missing from life? | He thought quality and texture of information, leisure time to think, and the right to carry out actions based on the other two items were missing. |
| What plan did Montag and Faber devise? | They were going to plant books in firemen’s homes and turn in alarms on the firemen. This was to cast suspicion on all firemen. |
| What was Montag willing to do to convince Faber to help carry out the plan? | He would destroy his book, page by page until Faber would cooperate. |
| What had Faber designed that allowed him to be in constant contact with Montag? | They had designed an electronic radio transmitter that could be placed in the ear. (The “Green Bullet”) |
| Why did Faber decide to go to St. Louis? | He wanted to enlist the help of an unemployed printer to begin making copies of books. |
| Why did Montag burn the book of poetry in the wall incinerator in his home? | He had made a mistake by showing Mildred’s friends that he had a book. Faber gave him orders through the radio transmitter to burn the book, to convince the ladies that he was playing a joke on them. KNOW REACTIONS OF BOTH LADIES. |
| Where did Montag hide his books after the ladies left? | He hid the books in his back yard. |
| What was the destination of the alarm on the night Montag returned to work at the firehouse? | The alarm destination was Montag’s home. |
| Who was the informant on Montag’s home? | Mildred’s friends called in the first alarm, but Mildred called in the final alarm herself. |
| Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty? | Captain Beatty was aware that Montag was wearing a radio transmitter, and he was determined to find out who was on the other end. |
| Why didn’t Montag run away before he killed Captain Beatty? | He knew that the mechanical hound was in the neighborhood and would kill him. |
| Where did Montag go after he killed Beatty? | He goes to the garden to get his books, and then to Mr. and Mrs. Black’s house to plant books, and then he goes to Faber’s house. |
| When Montag left Faber’s house, which direction did he go? | He headed for the river and the railroads. |
| Why did Montag take whiskey, a suitcase, and some of Faber’s dirty clothes with him? | He needed some strong-smelling things to throw the hound off of his own scent. |
| What did the railroad tracks mean to Montag? | They were his path to follow to safety in the countryside. They meant freedom and a new start to him. |
| What was different about the fire Montag saw after leaving the river? | This fire was giving warmth and comfort, not destroying things. |
| During the manhunt for Montag by the hound, why did the camera identify an innocent man as Montag? | The firemen needed a neat ending to the day’s events. It was more important to have a dead body than to have the right person. It wouldn’t do for the criminal to have outwitted the government and to have escaped; that would make the government look bad. |
| What was different about the hobos Montag met? Why did each man identify himself as a famous author or piece of literature? | These men were all intellectuals and each had memorized a piece of literature to be written down at a later time. |
| What had Montag been able to memorize? | He memorized the Book of Ecclesiastes and a little of Revelation. |
| What happened to the city during the war? | The city and its inhabitants were destroyed. |
| What did Montag and the intellectuals believe their mission to be once the war ended? | They wanted to learn from previous mistakes and always to remember. |
English 2 Acc: Fahrenheit 451
February 6, 2020