Study Questions
Chapters 4-6
Chapter 4
1. Where do Bernard Marx and
Lenina Crowe plan to visit?
Chapter 4
1. Where do Bernard Marx
and Lenina Crowe plan to
visit?
They plan to visit the Savage
Reservation in New Mexico.
Chapter 4
2. Explain Bernard Marx’s
attitude toward the State.
Chapter 4
2. Explain Bernard Marx’s
attitude toward the State.
Bernard expresses a desire for
solitude and seems to want to
oppose the teachings of the
State.
Chapter 4
3. What is Helmholz
Watson’s job?
Chapter 4
3. What is Helmholz
Watson’s job?
His job is an emotional
engineer for the State.
Chapter 4
4. Explain Watson’s feeling
toward the State.
Chapter 4
4. Explain Watson’s feeling
toward the State.
He dislikes his job, thinks
things he writes are senseless,
and feels he has ability which
he cannot use.
Chapter 5
Compare the recreation and
social activities of the lower
castes with those of the
upper castes.
Chapter 5
 Compare the recreation and social activities of the
lower castes with those of the upper castes.
 All castes engage in group sports in the country
such as Escalator Squash and Centrifugal Bumblepuppy. Upper castes travel by helicopter while
lower castes use the monorail. The Solidarity
Service is a social activity reserved for the upper
castes. Lower castes have community sings. Only
upper castes can go on holidays to places outside
the World State.
Chapter 6
1. Over the stormy water of
the English Channel, what
desire does Bernard express
to Lenina?
Chapter 6
1. Over the stormy water of
the English Channel, what
desire does Bernard express
to Lenina?
He wants to be alone with
her.
Chapter 6
2. List three adjectives or
phrases to describe Lenina’s
personality.
Chapter 6
2. List three adjectives or
phrases to describe Lenina’s
personality.
Promiscuous, happy, and
well-conditioned
Chapter 6
3. The Director (Tomakin)
tells Bernard of a visit he
made to the New Mexico
Indian Reservation twenty
years ago. What unusual
thing happened there?
Chapter 6
 3. The Director (Tomakin) tells Bernard of a
visit he made to the New Mexico Indian
Reservation twenty years ago. What
unusual thing happened there?
 Twenty years ago he went to the same
Reservation. During a storm, he became
separated from the girl who went with him.
She was presumed to have been killed.
Chapter 6
4. Bernard learns that he is
going to be deported to
Iceland. Why?
Chapter 6
4. Bernard learns that he is going to
be deported to Iceland. Why?
He does not conform to the
standards of his caste, such as
having many different girls and
using soma.
Chapter 6
5. Rephrase Lenina’s saying,
“Was and will make me ill. I
take a gramme and only am.”
Chapter 6
5. Rephrase Lenina’s saying, “Was
and will make me ill. I take a
gramme and only am.”
The past and the future are
unimportant. Soma causes one to
live only in and for the present.
Chapters 4-6
1. Who is Helmholtz Watson?
What is his problem?
Chapters 4-6
1. Who is Helmholtz Watson?
What is his problem?
A lecturer at the College of
Emotional Engineering, and
Bernard’s friend.
Chapters 4-6
2. The Solidarity Service has
elements of several rituals in
our world. Which ones?
Chapter 4-6
2. The Solidarity Service has
elements of several rituals in
our world. Which ones?
Religious services, seances,
witches’ covens, orgies
Chapters 4-6
3. What story does the D. H. C.
tell Bernard? Was he supposed
to?
Chapters 4-6
3. What story does the D. H. C. tell
Bernard? Was he supposed to?
He tells him about his own trip to
the Savage Reservation many years
ago, and how he had left a female
companion there.
Chapters 4-6
4. What distressing
information does Bernard’s
call to Helmholtz reveal?
Chapters 4-6
4. What distressing
information does Bernard’s
call to Helmholtz reveal?
The D. H. C. plans to send
him to Iceland.