Study Questions
Chapters 1-3
Chapter 1
 1. Describe the setting for the opening chapter of
Brave New World. In what city and year does this
novel take place?
Chapter 1
 1. Describe the setting for the opening chapter of
Brave New World. In what city and year does this
novel take place?
 It is inside the Central London Hatchery and
Conditioning Center. The atmosphere is stark and
clinical. A.F. 632
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 2. What is the motto of the World State?
Chapter 1
 2. What is the motto of the World State?
 Community, Identity, Stability
Chapter 1
 3. Explain what is happening at the Hatchery and
Conditioning Center.
Chapter 1
 3. Explain what is happening at the Hatchery and
Conditioning Center.
 The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is
conducting new students through the Center. They
are learning about artificial reproduction and the
hatching of the eggs.
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 4. Describe Bokanovsky’s process.
Chapter 1
 4. Describe Bokanovsky’s process.
 One egg is made to “bud,” resulting in as many as 96
identical embryos.
Chapter 1
 5. What are the five castes of the World State?
Chapter 1
 5. What are the five castes of the World State?
 Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
Chapter 2
 1. What two objects are the babies being conditioned
to dislike?
Chapter 2
 1. What two objects are the babies being conditioned
to dislike?
 They are books and flowers.
Chapter 2
 2. Why does the State condition the masses to dislike
the country?
Chapter 2
 2. Why does the State condition the masses to dislike
the country?
 They do not consume any goods if they simply enjoy
natural pleasures in the country.
Chapter 2
 3. Explain how hypnopaedia works.
Chapter 2
 3. Explain how hypnopaedia works.
 Children are taught State-prescribed moral and social
principles through sleep-teaching, three times a week
for 30 months.
Chapter 2
 4. What does the child’s mind and, later, the adult’s
become?
Chapter 2
 4. What does the child’s mind and, later, the adult’s
become?
 The child is the sum of all of these suggestions made
through hypnopaedia.
Chapter 3
 1. What is the requirement for any new games? Why is
this so?
Chapter 3
 1. What is the requirement for any new games? Why is
this so?
 They must require at least as much apparatus as the
most complicated of existing games to increase
consumption.
Chapter 3
 2. Explain the State’s attitude toward sex. How does
the State regard marriage?
Chapter 3
 2. Explain the State’s attitude toward sex. How does
the State regard marriage?
 Citizens are expected to be promiscuous. Children are
taught erotic play to free them of any sense of guilt or
repression. They feel that marriage, monogamy, and
romance keep a society from being stable because they
cause an exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of
impulse and energy, which focus upon the individual
only as a part of the whole community.
Chapter 3
 3. “Ending is better than mending.” “The more
stitches, the less riches.” How do these sayings express
the economic views of the State?
Chapter 3
 3. “Ending is better than mending.” “The more
stitches, the less riches.” How do these sayings express
the economic views of the State?
 Mending, repairing any goods, is contrary to constant
consumption, the economic basis of the World State.
Chapters 1-3
 1. What is AF. 632? What can you infer about this
society from such a designation?
Chapters 1-3
 1. What is AF. 632? What can you infer about this
society from such a designation?
 After Ford 632 – this society worships production,
materialism.
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 2. How many individuals can be produced from one
egg and one sperm?
Chapters 1-3
 2. How many individuals can be produced from one
egg and one sperm?
 96
Chapters 1-3
 3. What is the purpose of the processes that take place
in the Social Predestination Room?
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 3. What is the purpose of the processes that take place
in the Social Predestination Room?
 The fetuses are chemically and otherwise treated to
suit them for a certain social caste and job.
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 4. What is the point of conditioning the masses to hate
nature?
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 4. What is the point of conditioning the masses to hate
nature?
 A love of nature does not keep factories busy.
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 5. What kinds of things do the children hear while
they are asleep?
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 5. What kinds of things do the children hear while
they are asleep?
 messages that convince them they are very happy
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 6. Who is Mustapha Mond? What does he say about
history?
Chapters 1-3
 6. Who is Mustapha Mond? What does he say about
history?
 Western European Controller; It’s bunk
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 7. Describe Lenina Crowne.
Chapters 1-3
 7. Describe Lenina Crowne.
 A young and attractive woman who works at the
Hatcheries and Conditioning Centre, Lenina is
“having” Henry Foster exclusively.
Chapters 1-3
 8. What is “wrong” with Bernard Marx?
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 8. What is “wrong” with Bernard Marx?
 He is a bit small for an Alpha, likes to be alone, doesn’t
like to hear Lenina discussed as if she were a mere
piece of meat.
Chapters 1-3
 9. What is soma?
Chapters 1-3
 9. What is soma?
 A drug with no side effects which provides an escape
from reality