Chapter 1
1.
What is the world motto?
Community, Identity, Stability
2.
What organization is at work in the “squat grey building of only thirty-four floors?”
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center
3.
What iconic figure replaces God or Jesus in the popular lexicon?
Henry Ford
4.
Why is this person important to this society
He put the assembly line into practice
5.
What does a person get for “donating” her eggs to society?
Six month’s salary
6.
What is the Bokanovsky Process?
Human cloning
7.
The Bokanovsky Process is one of the main instruments of what?
Social stability
8.
What different caste levels exist in this society?
Alphas
Betas
Gammas
Deltas
Epsilons
9.
How many humans can “bud” out of a bokanovskiefied egg?
96
10.
What is another word for being born?
Decanting
11.
What is a freemartin?
A female who is infertile but sometimes grows a beard
12.
What happens when oxygen is reduced to the buds?
Keeps an embryo below par
13.
What caste groups are subjected to the Bokanovsky Process?
Gamma, Deltas, Epsilons
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Chapter 2
14.
In Chapter 2, 8-month old babies are being conditioned to have aversion to two items.
What are those things?
Books and flowers
15.
What two forces are used to create an aversion to these two items?
Through electric shock and loud alarms
16.
Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country?
So they will consume transport
17.
What do we learn has happened to Polish, German and French
Dead languages
18.
What does “viviparous?” How do people feel about it.
The traditional form of reproduction. Embarrassed or disgusted
19.
What is hypnopaedia?
Sleep teaching.
20.
Hypnopaedia is used for what type of education?
Social or moral education. Not intellectual.
Chapter 3
21.
Why is Fanny frustrated with Lenina in Chapter 3?
Because she is only sleeping with one man – not promiscuous enough
22.
What is Centrifugal Bumble-puppy?
A futuristic children’s game?
23.
What happens to the little boy who won’t play the sexual game in Chapter 3?
He is taken to see the psychologist.
24.
What is the name of the World Controller for Western Europe
Mustapha Mond
25.
What does Our Ford say about history?
History is bunk
26.
Where does Bernard Max work?
The Psychology Bureau
27.
What is the name of the Resident Controller of Western Europe? Who is this character’s foil in
1984 ?
Mustapha Man
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28.
What book is banned in the society of BNW?
The Bible
29.
Name one value we hold sacred that the BNW finds disgusting
Family
Monogamy
Romance
30.
Why are these values shunned? What quality to they promote
Exclusiveness
31.
Who is said to conform to the strictest conventionality
The Director
32.
What hynopaedic slogan promotoes promiscuity
Everyone belongs to everyone else
33.
From the way others treat Bernard Marx, what can you infer about him?
He is an outcast.
34.
Why is Ford an iconic figure in this society?
Because he brought technology to the masses.
34.
How did the World Society originally try to change the world
A massive war – The Nine Years War
35.
In Chapter 3, we learn that the BNW society endeavors to make life easy by removing what aspect of humanity?
Emotions
36.
According to spoken rumor, what accounts for Bernard Marx’s strange behavior?
Too much alcohol in his bottle
37.
When someone is called pneumatic, what does that actually mean?
They are plump
38.
What does the phrase, ending is better than mending mean.
Don’t fix anything; buy something new
39.
How does this society feel about books and culture?
They highly disapprove.
40.
What happened to all the crosses in the country? Why?
They had the top cut and became enormous T’s
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41.
What has physically happened to old people?
They still have the same energy level and are still alert
Chapter 4
42.
What do the upper castes use for transportation?
Helicopters
43.
What do the lower castes use for transportation?
Monorail
44.
What is unique about Bernard’s physique as compared to other Alpha pluses
He is undersized
45.
How are Hemholtz Watson and Bernard Marx the same?
Both feel separated or alienated from others
The knowledge that they were individuals
46.
What is body mass or size represent to the people of brave new world?
Superiority
47.
Where are the “garages” or the place where the upper castes keep their mode of transporation?
The roofs
48.
How does Bernard treat the lower castes attendants”
With contempt, rude, derision
49.
Where do Lenina and Bernard plan to go?
New Mexico
50.
What does Hemholtz Watson do for a living?
Writer/lecturer
51.
Hemholtz’s superior’s have a one word summation of his skills
Able
52.
How does Hemholtz physically appear
Large and very handsome
53.
Hemholtz seems to be obssessed with a certain goal, what is that goal?
Doing work that matters, saying something important
54.
In speaking with Bernard, it’s clear that Hemholtz has conflicting feelings toward his friend. What other emotion does he have toward a whiny Bernard
Shame, he wishes he would show a bit more pride
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Chapter 5
55.
In Brave New World, everyone give back to society. How do the dead give back to society?
Making plants grow (phosphorous)
56.
What is another name for Solidarity Service?
Orgy Porgy
57.
How many people participate in this ritual?
12
58.
What is the point of this ritual
To make all 12 members one
59.
How does Bernard Marx feel after the ritual?
Even more miserable.
60.
What it it about Morgana Rothschild Bernard cannot get out of his mind
A unibrow
61.
How does Bernard feel at the end of chapter five?
Emptier than ever
62.
According to Henry Foster, in what way are all people of BNW the same, despite their caste?
Physio-chemically
63.
Who or what is Big Henry?
A clock (formerly Big Ben)
Chapter 6
64.
Where do Bernard Marx and Lenina go on their vacation
New Mexico, Savage Reservation, Santa Fe
65.
What does Lenina find particularly disquieting about Bernard’s behavior
He likes to do things in private
66.
How does Bernard Marx feel about Soma?
Rather not take it; would rather be himself, “myself and nasty”
67.
How does Lenina feel about looking at the waves at the ocean
She finds it disturbing
68.
What is the general view must people hold of elemental nature
Try to avoid it
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69.
What happened to the Director’s girlfriend when they went to a savage reservation?
She got lost
70.
What particular aspect of Bernard Marx’s behavior displeases the Director
Not behaving in an infantile manner
71.
What does the Director threaten to do to Bernard if he does not correct his behavior?
Send him to Iceland
72.
What separates civilization from savagery, literally?
An electric fence
Chapter 7
73.
As she watches the ritual at the Reservation, Lenina is reminded of what ritual in her own world
Orgy Porgy
74.
What is the name of the blond young man they find living at the Reservation
John
75.
What is the name of the woman who gave birth to him?:
Linda
76.
What does this woman look like?
She is old and fat, disgusting and dirty
77.
How does Lenina respond to her
She is disgusted
78.
What is the purpose of the ritual Bernard and Lenina witness
To make it rain and to make the corn grow
79.
What two images are on display in the middle of the ritual
Jesus and an eagle
80.
Why do the women of the village hate the young man’s mother?
Because she sleeps with their men
81.
What does the young man call the world outside of the Reservation?
The Other Place
82.
What “connection” does Bernard Marx make almost immediately upon meeting this young man and his mother?
That she is the abandoned girl the Director spoke of, and the boy is the Director’s son.
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83.
Chapter 8
What is the drink Pope brings the young man’s mother?
Mescal/alcohol
84.
What feeling do Bernard Marx and the young man have in common?
They both feel different and alone.
85.
What two problems does the young man have in the Reservation?
He is not allowed to participate with others because he is white
He is jealous of his mother’s many lovers
86.
The young man feels superior to others on the Reservation because he know how to do what?
Read
87.
Who wrote the book Pope gave the young man?
Shakespeare
88.
What is Bernard Marx’s real motivation in bringing the young man and his mother back to London?
To embarrass the director
89.
Huxley employs what type of literary device to inform the reader of the young man’s past?
Flashback
90.
The cleanliness and sterility of London, and the filth and stench of human of the
Reservation almost serve as what type of literary device?
Foils
91.
Upon discovering he will return with Bernard to London, the young man quotes lines from what play
The Tempest
92.
Chapter 9
93.
How does Lenina deal with the scene from the reservation
She takes a lot of soma
94.
Who does Bernard Marx call to get permission to bring the young man back to
London
Mustapha Mond
95.
How does the young man feel about Lenina
He loves her – finds her beautiful
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96.
How does he demonstrate this feeling; what is the act he commits
He breaks into the rest house
97.
Why doesn’t the young man touch Lenina?
He doesn’t want to defile her
98.
What is ironic about the “savage” nature of the young man
He can read and quote Shakespeare
99.
X-tra credit
Why do you believe Huxley chose the person he chose as the young man’s source of not only quotes but of knowledge and inspiration?
Shakespeare is considered the height of civilization
Shakespeare deals in emotions
Contrast with the idiotic slogans of the World State
Chapter 10
100.
Why does the Director want to fire Bernard Marx in the Fertilizing Room
Because it contains more high caste members
101.
Why does he want to do this publicly?
To make an example of him.
102.
According to the director, what is the overall effect of unorthodoxy?
A danger to society
103.
Several things make Bernard Marx unorthodox. Name one.
Views on sports
Views on soma
His sex life
Refusal to obey teachings of Our Ford
Refusal to behave in an infantile manner
104.
Where does the Director want to send Bernard Marx?
Iceland
105.
What obscene name does John Savage call the Director?
Father
106.
When the employees witness the reunion between Linda and the Director, how do they react?
They roar with laughter
107.
How does the Director respond to the reunion?
He is horrified, humiliated
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Chapter 11
108.
What has happened to the Director after the reunion?
He resigns
109.
Now that John Savage has made Bernard Marx popular and important, what has happened to Bernard’s personality? What new behaviors has he taken on?
Dates women
Soma
Increased social life
Everything he hates
110.
Describe the change in Bernard Marx’s character as he presents John to his society
Becoming increasingly more obnoxious
111.
How does John feel about the Feelies
Embarrassed and disgusted
112.
What is the subject of the Feelie Lenina and John attend
The kidnapping of a blond women by a black man. Helicopter
113.
Why does Lenina cry at the end of Chapter 11
John won’t sleep with her
Chapter 12
114.
How has John Savage upset Bernard’s social climbing plans?
He won’t come to his party
115.
What happens to Bernard Marx when John won’t attend his affairs
He loses his importance and becomes humiliated.
116.
How does Hemholtz receive Bernard’s attempts at reconciliation
He is receptive and kind
117.
Why does John Savage re-friend Bernard
Because he’s miserable again after
118.
How does Hemholtz get into trouble with his bosses?
He writes an unorthodox poem
119.
How does Hemholtz respond to John’s reading of Romeo and Juliet?
He laughs hysterically?
120.
Name one of the reasons for this reaction?
The idea of parents forcing the daughter to have someone she didn’t want
The girl not insisting on someone she prefers
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Tybalt wasting his phosphorous laying on a monument
Chapter 13
121.
At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lenina refuses a date with her old flame Henry
Foster; why?
Because she only “likes” John the Savage
122.
What does Henry think she might be suffering from?
One of the few infectious diseases
123.
Some 22 years we learn the result of Lenina’s inattention in her job; what is that result?
An Alpha administrator dies of sleeping sickness
124.
Once again, what friendly advice does Fanny Crowne provide Lenina to shake her out of her blues and alert her to her duty?
Try to sleep with more men
125.
How does Lenina remedy her blues?
She shows up to see John Savage
126.
What does Lenina want John Savage to tell her
His feelings for her. Whether he likes her or not.
127.
What is Lenina’s reaction when John tells her of his love for her in richly poetic terms.
She becomes totally confused.
128.
What part of John’s plans for Lenina horrifies her?
Marriage
129.
What does Lenina do when John proclaims his love for her?
Strips and attacks him
130.
How does John receive her reaction? What does he call her?
He is enraged and calls her a “whore.”
131.
How does Lenina respond to John’s reaction?
She locks herself in the bathroom
132.
What event ends the scene between John and Lenina?
A call about Linda
133.
Chapter 14
134.
What is wrong with Linda in Chapter 14
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She is dying
135.
How does John respond to her condition?
He is grief stricken
136.
How does the nurse respond to John’s emotional state?
She is offended. She feels he is rude.
137.
What is the physical appearance of the other patients on Linda’s floor
Fresh and unwithered
138.
What is Linda thinking of as she slips in and out of consciousness
Pope or sex
139.
What interrupts John’s visit with Linda
Screaming children
140.
Why are the children at the hospital
Death conditioning
141.
How old is Linda when she is admitted to the hospital
44 years old
142.
How old were the other patients
In their 60’s
143.
What are Linda’s last words?
Everyone belongs to everyone else
144.
What is the nurse’s reaction to John’s grief?
She’s embarrassed for him. She finds his response indecent
145.
Chapter 15
146.
To what animal does John compare the hordes of swarming twins?
Maggots
147.
Among the crowds of twins, John repeats the same line from the Tempest, but now what is his tone?
Ironic
148.
What is being distributed among the crowd of Deltas that pleases them so much?
Soma
149.
What command does John Savage yell to the crowd?
Don’t take that stuff?
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150.
What does John Savage tell the crowd he is there to bring them?
Freedom or manhood
151.
What mad act does John commit?
He throws the soma out into the crowd
152.
Who joins him in this mad act?
Hemholtz Watson
153.
Who attempts to join them but cannot for his fear?
Bernard Marx
154.
What items do the police use to calm the angry masses
Soma vapor
Music
Smells
Calming voice
155.
How does the crowd react to these multiple measures? What do they do to one another?
Kiss each other
Chapter 16
156.
To whom are the three rebels taken?
Mustapha Mond, the World Controller of Western Europe
157.
According to Mustapha Mond, why is Shakespeare prohibited in the World
Society?
Because it’s old
158.
Mustapha Mond says he wants the world society to like only what kind of things?
New things
159.
According to Mustapha Mond, what would be the result of tragedies on the world society?
Instability
160.
What happens to a society made entirely of Alphas?
It doesn’t work at all
161.
What does the Controller mean when he says “each one of us goes through life inside a bottle?”
We are pre-conditioned according to our caste.
162.
Mond says that the ideal society resembles what shape?
An iceberg
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163.
What was Mond’s former job before he was Controller
A physicist/scientist
164.
What two things, according to Mond, are incompatible with happiness and must be extinguished?
Art and science
165.
What punishment will be given to Bernard, Hemholtz, and John for their rebellious acts?
Sent to an island
166.
Why, according to Mustapha Mond, would this be such an agreeable punishment?
Because all the most interesting people are there – they are individuals
167.
What kind of an environment does Hemholtz choose for his future home and why?
Somewhere cold because it is better for writing.
168.
Mond notes that Our Ford shifted society’s emphasis from beauty and science to
_____________ and _____________.
Comfort and happiness.
169.
In relation to happiness, what is ironic about the Controller, the man who ensures happiness for others?
He himself is not happy
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
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