Fahrenheit 451

Here are a few questions to answer for Fahrenheit 451. Any 40 of these are possible questions on your major 451 test. If you can answer these you know the plot of the book in and out!
What is Montag's job, and how does he feel about it?
What do the salamander on Montag's arm and the phoenix disc on his chest symbolize?
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
What do people do with books in this society?
According to Montag, did firemen ever put out fires?
What happens if you drive slowly? (approx. 40 mph)
Clarise says her uncle was arrested once for being a "pedestrian". What was the crime he committed?
What thought provoking question does Clarisse ask Montag and what is his answer?
What are the "seashells" in Mildred's ears?
How does Montag describe the bedroom that he shares with Mildred? What does this foreshadow?
What seems to be wrong with Mildred?
What was right and wrong with Mildred's cure?
What does Montag do to help him deal with the problems he encounters that night?
What is odd about Mildred the next morning? Does Montag tell her what happened? What is her response? What is unusual about their t.v.?
What does Clarisse do with the dandelion? Why does Montag become angry?
Aside from their obvious differences, like their ages, what is the most significant difference between Mildred and Clarisse?
What is unusual about the firehouse dog? How does it worry Montag?
Who is Beatty?
What type of gifts does Clarisse leave for Montag?
What are some of the activities that this society provides for its young people?
What does Clarisse mean when she says that museums are all "abstract"?
What were they like in the past?
What happens to Clarisse?
What does a typical fireman look like? What sprays from a fireman's hose?
How has the history of the fireman been changed?
What was different about burning this particular old woman's house?
Why does Beatty refer to the old woman as living in a "Tower of Babel"?
Explain the quote the old woman stated, "We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
What did Montag take from the old woman's house?
What question does Montag ask Mildred? Does he know the answer?
Who are Mildred's and Montag's "relatives"?
What does Mildred "think" happened to Clarisse?
Why does Montag keep thinking about the old woman who died for her books?
Why does Beatty come to Montag's house? What does he tell Montag?
What does Mildred find under Montag's pillow?
Do any types of books still exist in this society that are legal?
How does this society change the meaning of the line from the "Constitution" that "all men are created equal"?
What does Beatty finally admit about the firemen from the past? What does Beatty think of fire?
Does Beatty make any startling confessions to Montag?
How long does Montag have to recover (or to keep his book)?
When Montag says he has an urge to go smash and kill things why does Mildred tell him to "go take the Beetle"?
What does Montag show Mildred that he has hidden behind the ventilator grate?
How long do Montag and Mildred spend reading?
Why does Mildred understand the one line "That favourite subject, myself"?
What appears to be outside their door while they are reading?
When Mildred says of Beatty, "He might come and burn the house and the family," to whom does she refer?
How many atomic wars have passed? What else does Montag's conversation tell us about what has been going on in the outside world?
Who is Faber?
What priceless book does Montag have?
Why does Montag recall a summer at the beach where he played with a sieve and the sand? What does this have to do with him tryng to read a book while on the subway?
Where is Montag headed?
Why does Montag tell Faber he came to see him?
Why does Faber call Montag a "hopeless romantic"?
What are the 3 things Faber describes as missing?
What is Faber's and Montag's plan?
What does the line mean, "The salamander devours his tail!" ?
What does Faber mean when he says that firemen are
rarely necessary and that it's a "sideshow" now?
Why does Faber warn Montag to have patience?
How does Montag force Faber to support him?
What does Faber say happened to his drama class and the newspaper?
Beatty has obviously read books. Why is Montag still afraid to talk to him?
What does Faber's line mean, "Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents"? Why does Montag respond, "So that's what I am"?
Why does Faber find himself contemptible?
What does Faber give Montag in order to help him face Beatty? What does Montag give to Faber?
How does Montag upset Mildred's guests?
How do the women take care of their kids?
How does Montag explain the presence of the book in his hands to Mildred's friends?
What is significant about the lines from "Dover Beach" that Montag read aloud to Mildred's friends?
Why does Clara cry?
Why does Faber warn Montag and tell him to "feel old"?
What does Montag give Beatty upon his return to the firehouse? Why does Montag get up several times during the poker game?
Beatty quotes some great writers of the past, but what do all the quotes say about knowledge and learning?
Beatty then beats Montag down unmercifully in what manner?
"All's well that is well in the end." How does Beatty change the original quote?
Whose house do they next go to to burn?
What happens to Mildred?
What does Beatty mean when he states, "What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?" Is this a truism?
What doesn't Montag first heed Faber's warning and run?
How did Montag feel as he burned his own house, and why?
Who turned in the alarm on Montag?
What causes Montag to burn Beatty?
Why does Montag think Beatty wanted to die?
What does Montag do next? What information does the seashell provide for him?
What was so hard about crossing a street?
Why does Montag leave books in Mrs. Black's house?
Where does Faber tell Montag he should head?
What do they use to track Montag?
How do Montag and Faber try to trick the hound? Does it work? How does the concept of audience participation work against Montag?
Where does Montag lose the hound?
Why does Montag now think about the sun and other things that "burn"?
What scares Montag when he emerges from the river?
What impresses Montag the most when he leaves the river?
What does Montag find so different about the fire he encountered in the woods?
What does Granger give Montag to drink?
What happened to the "chase" to find Montag?
What do the men in the wood do with their books?
What does he mean when he saws "bums on the outside, libraries inside"?
What is the difference between the lawncutter and the gardener?
How long did the war last?
What is the legend of the Phoenix?
What does Montag start to remember as they travel upriver?