Brave New World Test
English 9 Honors
(110 points)
Part I. Characters
Directions: Write in the letter or letters of the best answer next to the number. You
may use a letter more than once.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
John the Savage
Bernard Marx
Lenina Crowne
Helmholtz Watson
Our Ford
ab.
ac.
ad.
ae.
bc.
Linda
Mustapha Mond
Fanny Crowne
The Director
Pope
1. She is "awfully pneumatic"
2. A mother
3. A son
4. A nurse with purple eyes
5. Ironically named, the most civilized of all the characters
6. An iconic figure of mass production
7. Confesses his own youthful experiments in challenging authority
8. Dies when he surrenders to a hostile society
9. Disgraced head of Hatcheries and Conditioning
10. Handsome, intellectual but ultimately unfilled
11. He uses his power for others' happiness, not his own.
12. His “other” name is Tomakin
13. Is a noble and lonely character
14. Is an insecure, self-indulgent, lonely character
15. Is an searching, accomplished, lonely character
16. A friend with sound advice
17. Laughs at Shakespeare
18. Claims the right to be unhappy
19. One of 10 world Controllers
20. A living representation of age and senility
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a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
John the Savage
Bernard Marx
Lenina Crowne
Helmholtz Watson
Our Ford
ab.
ac.
ad.
ae.
bc.
Linda
Mustapha Mond
Fanny Crowne
The Director
Pope
21. Encourages promiscuity in others
22. Reads Shakespeare
23. Voices the society’s expectations of sexual behavior
24. Rebels against her conditioning for sexual promiscuity
25. Represents the hypocrisy of authority
26. Rumored to have had too much alcohol in his blood surrogate
27. Short stature marks him for ridicule
28. The star of The Savage from Surrey
29. Threatens to send Bernard to Iceland
30. Left behind in New Mexico
31. Tries to incite the Deltas to rebellion
32. Linda’s last lover
33. Uses John the Savage to achieve social success
34. Is grateful for exile
35. Dishonored by the discovery he is a father
36. Gave Linda a copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare
37. Embodies all of the human and humanitarian values that have been abandoned in the
World State.
38. Combines a firm commitment to the values of the World State with a nuanced
understanding of its history and function.
39. A hypocrite, following rise to importance participates in all the activities he criticized.
40. Everything Bernard wishes he could be.
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Part II: Quotes
Directions: Write in the letter of the person who SAID the quote or the type of quote.
You may use a letter more than once.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
John the Savage
Bernard Marx
Lenina Crowne
Helmholtz Watson
Our Ford
ab.
ac.
ad.
ae.
bc.
Linda
Mustapha Mond
Fanny Crowne
The Director
A slogan/song
41. “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want
freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
42. “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the
overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as
instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against
misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal
overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
43. "Cleanliness is next to Fordliness."
44. “Bokanovsky’s process is one of the major instrument of social stability.”
45. “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
46. “I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
47. “I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
48. “Tomakin!”
49. “And what on earth vacuum cleaners have to do with lions...
50. "The more stitches the less riches..."
51. "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
52. “History is bunk”
53. “That is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All
conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."
54. "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so
frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta...”
55. "A gramme is better than a damn."
56. “O brave new world that has such people in it...Let’s start at once.”
57. “For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post
he has held at the Centre.”
58. “My father.”
59. For There ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine."
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a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
John the Savage
Bernard Marx
Lenina Crowne
Helmholtz Watson
Our Ford
ab.
ac.
ad.
ae.
bc.
Linda
Mustapha Mond
Fanny Crowne
The Director
A slogan/song
60. "Put your arms around me...Hug me till you drug me, honey...Kiss me till I'm in a
coma. Hug me honey, snuggly..."
61. “You're welcome”
62. "So they're having children all the time - like dogs. It's too revolting...And yet John
was a great comfort to me."
63. "Why was that old fellow [Shakespeare] such a marvelous propaganda technician?
Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got
to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating Xrayish phrases..."
64. "You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.
We've sacrificed the high art."
65. “Do you mean to tell me you’re still going out with Henry Foster?”
66. “Somehow..I hadn’t been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately.”
67. “Talking about her as though she were a bit of meat”
68. “Because I’m unhappy again, that’s why.”
69. “Because... I like him.”
70. “Forgive me, God. I’m bad. I’m wicked. I’m...”
Part III: True/False
Mark your scantron with an “a” if the statement is true or a “b” if the statement is
false.
71. The state takes children away from their mothers at an early age.
72. Duties in the factories are often performed by a single Bokanovsky group.
73. Dead people are given elaborate funeral services.
74. Decanting is the process of removing embryos from the bottles in which they
matured.
75. Feely Palaces offered a purely visual experience
76. A surrogate in this novel is a woman who carries a baby for another.
77. Residents of the World State can be exiled for nonconformity.
78. People are kept busy consuming goods so they will keep up the economy.
79. Mustapha Mond was once a rebel
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80. According to Mustapha Mond, people have no need of a god because they are always
content and secure.
81. John eventually takes soma and enjoys the feelies.
82. Ashamed of his lusts, John drowns himself in the English Channel.
83. Tomakin is Lenina’s father.
84. Lenina is so conditioned that she cannot experience the emotions of pure love and
commitment that John feels should be a part of life.
85. John was not accepted on the Reservation because of Linda’s way of life.
86. Many citizens of the World State share common last names
Part IV: Multiple Choice
Select the best answer for each question and write it in the blank.
87. What does the World State value above all else?
a. Money and profit
b. Marriage
c. Community, identity, and stability
d. Bokanovsky groups
e. None of the above
88. What does the World State condition the lower castes to dislike and why?
a. The city, because then they will not work on farms.
b. The country, because enjoying the country does not involve consumption.
c. The city, because they want to eliminate pollution.
d. The country, because the World State wants to cut down all of the forests.
e. Books and flowers, because they want people to all become scientists.
89. Which of these hypnopaedic sayings best sums of the economic philosophy of the
World State?
a. Hug me ‘til you drug me.
b. A gramme is better than a damn.
c. Ending is better than mending.
d. When the individual feels, the community reels.
e. I’m awfully glad I’m a Beta.
90. What odd thing happened on the Director’s visit to New Mexico?
a. He learned that he was going to be deported to Iceland.
b. He drank mescal and decided it was better than soma.
c. He found a volume of Shakespeare’s works.
d. He lost his date in a storm.
e. He realized that Bernard was a useful and good worker.
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91. What do Bernard and John have in common?
a. They are both outcasts in their societies.
b. They both have mothers.
c. The both love Shakespeare.
d. A and C
e. A, B, and C
92. Why do women in the reservation especially hate Linda?
a. She drinks too much.
b. She has sex with their men.
c. She is overly fat.
d. They think she does not raise her son properly.
e. She won’t give them any soma.
93. In the World State, the word “mother” was considered:
a. Obscene
b. Natural
c. Funny
d. Sacred
e. Unusual
94. The purpose of “death conditioning” is to create an attitude of:
a. Concern for the dying
b. Lack of concern for death
c. Worry about your own death
d. Sorrow about death
e. An understanding of the afterlife
95. What is done with dead bodies in the World State?
a. They are interred in a crypt.
b. They are eaten.
c. They are burned to make fertilizer.
d. They are buried by relatives.
e. They are “reprocessed” to be used as fuel.
96. At the end of the novel, John:
a. changes society
b. finds inner peace
c. forgives Lenina
d. kills himself
e. kills Bernard
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97. All the zippers in the novel likely represent
a. Effort free living
b. Easy sex
c. Obsession with pleasure
d. All of the above
98. In their off hours, people in the World State are supposed to act like civilized:
a. Robots
b. Infants
c. Morons
d. Adults
e. Dictators
99. Many of the women in the World State were sterile and were known as:
a. Freemartins
b. Freespirits
c. Freelovers
d. Freeagents
e. Freewomen
100. John almost caused a riot when tried to do away with:
a. The feelies
b. Soma
c. Hypnopaedia
d. Decanting
101. John whips himself to
a. Control his desires
b. Punish himself
c. Test his manhood
d. Release his emotions
e. Give himself pleasure
102. Aldous Huxley’s novel could be described as a warning against:
a. Technology that is used to control people
b. Instant gratification
c. Constant consumption of goods
d. Loss of art and individuality
e. All of the above
103. The title of the novel comes from:
a. The bible
b. The world state
c. The setting
d. Romeo and Juliet
e. The Tempest
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104. Some of the characters are afflicted with a case of
a. Bad breath
b. The flu
c. Lupus
d. Cancer
e. Chronic fatigue
105. Huxley’s tone toward the citizens of London can best be described as:
a. Respectful
b. Amused
c. Empathetic
d. Sardonic
e. Angry
106. The dead animals at the foot of the electric fence serve as a sort of foreshadowing of:
a. Bernard’s social ruin
b. Lenina’s betrayal
c. The D.H.C. shame
d. John’s death
e. Mond’s philosophy
107. The choice of Henry Ford as the deity-like figure in Huxley's dystopia reveals
society’s emphasis on
a. Mass production
b. Efficiency
c. Mass consumption
d. All of the above
e. None of the above (but not d)
108.
Sex in the novel serves the purpose of:
a. Pleasure, duh
b. Distraction
c. Rebellion
d. Unity
e. All of the above
109.
Hey, did you notice it? Lots of imagery regarding:
a. Animals
b. Insects
c. Cars
d. Colors
e. Waves
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110. In 1984, people are controlled by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, people are
controlled by inflicting:
a. pleasure
b. choice
c. sports
d. feelies
e. public transportation
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