What card game are the firemen playing?

What card game are the firemen playing?

pokerWhile waiting at the firehouse to be called, the firemen play poker, presumably five-card draw. It's an ongoing game, introduced briefly in an early scene, then returning for a longer one in which Montag again takes a seat along with Beatty and the others.

What does Beatty say to Montag after he shows up at the firehouse?

This is because they feel things. (105) What does Beatty say to Montag after he shows up at the firehouse? He is testing Montag and trying to confuse him. Beatty is baiting him, because he knows that Montag has the book to see if he'll react to it.

Where do the firemen go after their poker game?

The fire alarm goes off at the station house while the firemen are playing poker, interrupting the game. Beatty, who had been baiting Montag throughout the poker game, walks slowly to the machine typing out the address where the firemen must go to burn a newly discovered cache of books.

What questions does Montag ask in the card game?

When Montag is playing cards at the fire station with Beatty and the others, he asks what happened to a man whose house was burned the week before. Beatty replies that this man was taken to the asylum, on the logic that anybody who goes against the government must be "insane."