BRAVE NEW WORLD

STUDY GUIDE

CHAPTER 1

1. What is the World State Motto?

2. What is the year?

3. What are the five social classes?

4. What is Boknovsky's Process?

5. What is Podsnap's Technique?

6. What is a freemartin?

7. What is the secret of happiness and success?

CHAPTER 2

8. Why the name of the nursery?

9. Who is the deity of BMW?

10. How many languages are there?

11. How are children cared for?

12. What should moral education never be?

13. What is hypnopaedia?

14. What are two lessons the children have?

CHAPTER 3

15. What kind of games do the Controllers approve?

16. Why is the little boy sent to the Assistant Supt. of Psychology?

17. Who is Mustapha Mond?

18. Who said, "History is bunk?"

19. What are the Feelies?

20. What conversations are taking place simultaneously in the chapter?

21. What is another name for Ford?

22. Who is Bernard Marx?

23. What is the Nine Years War? What are the results of it?

24. What is a Malthusian Belt?

25. Why is soma the perfect drug?

26. What are sane sleep-teaching sayings?

27. What are some allusions to 20th C times and practices?

CHAPTER 4

28. Who could Bernard Marx, Benito Hoover, and Lenina's names have come from?

29. Why is Bernard upset with Lenina? (Keep dates in mind)

30. What colors do the social classes wear?

31. How is Bernard different from others in his class?

32. What is Helmholtz Watson's profession? How is he different?

33. What unorthodox behavior has Helmholtz exhibited?

34. What key question does he ask Bernard?

35. What does Bernard say about suspicion?

CHAPTER 5

36. What is great about death?

37. Where do Henry and Lenina go on their date?

38. What is a Solidarity Service? Specifically what takes place at one?

CHAPTER 6

39. Why does Lenina want to "tolerate" Bernard?

40. What does Fanny attribute his problem to?

41. What are some more sayings? List at least five.

CHAPTER 6—Continued

42. What digression by the Director embarrasses Bernard?

43. What is "infantile decorum?"

44. Where do Bernard and Lenina go?

45. What news does Bernard receive from Helmholtz?

CHAPTER 7

46. What repulses Lenina?

47. What is the age of death?

48. How does Lenina cope with her environment?

49. Who is John?

50. Who is Linda?

CHAPTER 8

51. Why did the Indian women whip Linda?

52. Why couldn't Linda leave the Reservation?

53. What book did John read?

54. Who discovered Time and death and God?

55. What does Bernard ask John?

CHAPTER 9

56. Why does Bernard call Mustapha Mond?

57. How does Lenina spend her holiday?

58. Why does Mond agree to Bernard's suggestion?

59. Who sneaks in while Lenina sleeps? Why?

CHAPTER 10

60. Of whom does the Director plan to make a public example of?

61. What is the crime?

62. How is the director disgraced?

63. What does John call the Director?

CHAPTER 11

64. How does Linda spend her time?

65. Whom does John want?

66. Whom does Lenina go to the feelies with?

67. What is "Three Weeks in a Helicopter?"

CHAPTER 12

68. How does John embarrass Bernard?

69. Whom do Bernard's guests ridicule?

70. Who is Bernard's only true friend?

71. Why/How is Helmholtz in trouble?

72. What strange action does Lenina take?

CHAPTER 13

73. Who makes an injection mistake? What is the result?

74. Whom does John want to prove himself worthy of?

75. Who is at Three Park Lane?

76. Whom does John get a call about?

77. What are his circumstances at the time?

CHAPTER 14

78. Why are the children at Three Park Lane?

79. Whom does Linda speak of?

80. Does she ever recognize John?

CHAPTER 15

81. Whom does the Sub-Bursar call?

82. Who is with Bernard?

83. Who joins with John?

84. What crowd control is used?

85. Who tries to sneak out?