F451 Background Test

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Across
  1. 5. What does Clarisse notice
  2. 6. Montag's boss
  3. 7. job set fires
  4. 9. named after famous pencil company
  5. 12. Montag's wife who escapes reality by watching tv
  6. 14. good guy
  7. 15. Scifi and dystopian
  8. 17. are to blame, not government
  9. 21. suppression of speech
  10. 23. type of government
  11. 26. not a perfect hero, often confused, frustrated and overwhelmed
  12. 27. too much of this between fast cars, music, tech
Down
  1. 1. myth known to endure fire without getting burned
  2. 2. populated by nonreaders and nonthinkers setting
  3. 3. leader of a group of hoboes, becomes Montag's mentor
  4. 4. Arabian myth of bird who after 500 years ignites and emerges as a baby to become a new phonix
  5. 5. burned physically and ideas burned from the mind
  6. 8. to own books or read
  7. 10. bad guy
  8. 11. neighbor of Montag considered unusual
  9. 13. fire, books, phoenix
  10. 16. person who walks
  11. 18. young people, Clarisse is afraid of them
  12. 19. Mechanical dog programed to track down any victim it has scent
  13. 20. Century set in
  14. 22. considered too secually explicit, too violent, drug use, unsuited to age group, inflammatory
  15. 24. Bradbury grasped how demanding and oddly isolating
  16. 25. for banning include trigger discontent and thought