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Brave New World
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Brave New World

by: Aldous Huxley

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1. 1. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?

The Podansky Process
The Trotsky Process
The Bokanovsky Process
Centrifugal Bumble-puppy

2. 2. The term for birth in the Hatchery is

Social predestination
Uncorking
Hatching
Decanting

3. 3. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?

By preventing the children from ever seeing books or flowers
By using hypnopaedia to teach them that books and flowers are worthless
By spanking the children when they approach books or flowers
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

4. 4. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys’ tour of the Hatchery?

Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Elementary Fordism and Elementary Class Consciousness
Elementary Sex and Elementary Caste Structure
Elementary Sex and Elementary Soma

5. 5. Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous?

Because she thinks Lenina is lonely
Because “every one belongs to every one else”
Because she thinks Henry Foster is treating Lenina poorly
Because she thinks Bernard Marx is attractive

6. 6. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?

Both feel alienated from World State society
Both are committed to trying to change the World State
Both have been persecuted by the World State
They are friends for no particular reason

7. 7. How does the Solidarity Service end?

With singing and large doses of soma
With an orgy
With a sermon from the Community Songster
With a series of hypnopaedic lessons

8. 8. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?

By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By telling her that she is “pneumatic”
By telling her that he loves her
She does not need to be convinced; he simply asks

9. 9. Where is the Savage Reservation located?

New Mexico
Nevada
Texas
Arizona

10. 10. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?

She is horrified
She is fascinated
She is sympathetic
She ignores it

11. 11. Which one of the following World State sayings has to do with soma?

“Everyone is happy now”
“Progress is lovely”
“A gramme is better than a damn”
“Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day”

12. 12. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?

To bring rain
To initiate the young men of the pueblo into adulthood
To cleanse the pueblo after the outsiders’ visit
To improve community cohesion

13. 13. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?

Because she slept with their husbands
Because she did not speak their language
Because she was from the Other Place
Because she insulted them

14. 14. What was the first book that John read as a child?

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Milton’s Paradise Lost
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orwell’s 1984

15. 15. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?

Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A Gramme a Day
A New Othello
Love in the Sky

16. 16. After his return from the Reservation with the Savage, what event leads to Bernard’s fall from social grace?

John refuses to meet Bernard’s dinner guests.
John tries to convince a crowd of Deltas not to take soma.
Lenina abandons him after John refuses to sleep with her.
Bernard sends Mustapha Mond a letter criticizing the World State.

17. 17. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?

He writes a poem about solitude.
He writes a poem criticizing the World State.
He reads Shakespeare with the Savage.
He spends too much time with Bernard.

18. 18. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?

A society of Alphas is unworkable.
Life on a Savage Reservation can destroy any amount of conditioning.
Happiness is the only criterion for the success of society.
Soma is a necessary component of a stable society.

19. 19. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?

He conducted scientific experiments.
He criticized the World State.
He wrote poetry.
He visited a Savage Reservation.

20. 20. Mustapha Mond says that “You can’t have a lasting civilization without . . .”

“plenty of pleasant vices.”
“soma.”
“pre-natal conditioning.”
“stability and happiness.”

21. 21. What does “V.P.S.” stand for?

Vigorous Panic Surrogate
Viviparous Pregnancy Surrogate
Violent Passion Surrogate
Vivid Passion Surrogate

22. 22. After retreating to the lighthouse, what does John do that first attracts the reporters?

He cries for his mother.
He calls Lenina’s name.
He whips himself.
He plants a garden.

23. 23. What motivates John’s suicide at the end of the novel?

Linda’s death
His unrequited love for Lenina
His disillusionment with the “brave new world”
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

24. 24. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and

Soma
Stability and strength
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Technology and progress

25. 25. Of the following, who rejects Lenina's sexual advances?

The Director
Benito
John
Henry

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