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Fahrenheit 451

9th-10th grade ELA · Medium · 20-25 min

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This board helps players review Literature · Ray Bradbury through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting & Plot, Themes, Symbols, Trivia & Quotes. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Characters

    The fireman protagonist.

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    Guy Montag

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  • Setting & Plot

    What firemen do in this society.

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    Burn books (and the houses that hide them)

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  • Themes

    Central theme — banning ideas.

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    Censorship

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  • Symbols

    What fire symbolizes in two contradictory ways.

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    Destruction AND warmth/renewal

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  • Trivia & Quotes

    Year published.

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    1953

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  • Author & Context

    The Cold War-era practice the novel responds to.

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    McCarthy-era censorship / book banning

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Characters

$100 — The fireman protagonist.
Guy Montag
$200 — The young curious neighbor who awakens Montag.
Clarisse McClellan
$300 — Montag's emotionally numb wife.
Mildred
$400 — The fire chief and antagonist.
Captain Beatty
$500 — The retired English professor who helps Montag.
Faber

Setting & Plot

$100 — What firemen do in this society.
Burn books (and the houses that hide them)
$200 — What the title temperature is supposed to be.
The temperature at which book paper burns
$300 — What Montag begins to do that's illegal.
Steal and read books
$400 — What the 'Mechanical Hound' is.
A robot tracker that hunts dissidents
$500 — Where the book-memorizing community lives.
In the wilderness, by the river / by the railroad

Themes

$100 — Central theme — banning ideas.
Censorship
$200 — The danger of mass entertainment numbing thought.
Conformity / passive consumption
$300 — The deep value of literature and ideas.
The power of books / knowledge
$400 — How technology can isolate and dull us.
Technology and alienation
$500 — The role of individual conscience against the state.
Independent thought / rebellion

Symbols

$100 — What fire symbolizes in two contradictory ways.
Destruction AND warmth/renewal
$200 — What the Phoenix at the end symbolizes.
Rebirth / hope after destruction
$300 — The 'parlor walls' (TV walls) symbolize this.
Mindless mass media
$400 — The Mechanical Hound symbolizes this.
Technology turned against humanity
$500 — What books symbolize in the novel.
Knowledge, freedom, memory, humanity

Trivia & Quotes

$100 — Year published.
1953
$200 — The opening line: 'It was a pleasure to ___.'
Burn
$300 — Beatty quotes from this Shakespeare play often.
Many — he weaponizes the canon
$400 — The people in the forest each memorize one of these.
A book
$500 — What destroys the city at the end.
A bomb (atomic war)

Author & Context

$100 — The Cold War-era practice the novel responds to.
McCarthy-era censorship / book banning
$200 — Bradbury said the novel was really about this medium's rise.
Television
$300 — The exiles' leader who quotes scripture and Plato.
Granger
$400 — The protagonist's transformation arc parallels this myth.
Rebirth / the Phoenix
$500 — Genre of the novel.
Dystopian science fiction

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