QUIZ

QUIZ PART 2: Brave New World ____ / 100 pts.

Did your read the text? BOLD: Yes No

NB: You have accessthe Brave New World text to answer the following.Answer the
questions in a complete sentences; insert your answer below each question. NB: You
may quote directly from the text to support your answer; to receive credit, you will note
your page reference in parenthesis.
NB: Submit a hard-copy of your completed quiz to our class meeting on April 27, 2022.

Chapter 1
1. How does the opening description of the Fertilizing Room set the mood?
The Fertilizing Room is described as a cold environment where people are produced
like machines. (p.1)

2. What is Bokanovsky’s Process?

Bokanovsky’s Process is the dividing of an egg into ninety-six embryos and every
embryo is into a full sized adult, so by making this they will grow ninety-six human being
instead of one.(p.3)

3. Why are Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons made inferior?

4. What happens to the embryos as they journey along the conveyor belt?
They prepared the embryo for the future, they immunized the embryo from all disease
by dossing them with alcohol and some other chemicals, and once they survive they are
ready to continue what they are being created for. (p.4)

5. What is the state’s motto?

Community, Identity, Stability.(p.1,5)

Chapter 2
1. Why are lower-caste infants conditioned to hate flowers and books?
They made them to hate flowers and books because reading and nature decrease
consumeactivity.(p.15)

2. Why are the students embarrassed by words such as “mother” and “father?
Because students are forced to see how babies are made as a pornographic movie.
(p.16)

3. How is hypnopaedia used in Brave New World?

Hypnopaedia were used as the principle of sleep-teaching, they teach kids in sleep, like
when they are sleeping, the teachers read them information so the kids can remember
what they heard when you ask them.(p.17)

Chapter 3
1. What is the State’s attitude toward marriage and personal relationships?
Both are immoral and these two can lead to endangering the social stability of the state.
(p.23)

2. How is the Nine Years’ War important?

Because the war was the ending of that world and the beginning of a society and there
started the happiness, identity and stability.(p.35-36)

3. How is Bernard different from the other Alphas?

He was unhappy and stayed alone all the time because he didn’t want it those things
like relationships with women and drugs.(p.39?)

Chapter 4
1. Why does Bernard feel uncomfortable around members of the lower-caste
workers?

2. How is Helmholtz Watson different from the other Alphas?

He was a powerfully builtman,attractive and very handsome. He wasn’t interest in
women, sport or communal activities but he wants to explore nature and beauty through
his writing, and he was more clever than the other alphas, he studies and analyzies
everything.(p.49-50)

Chapter 5
1. How does Lenina demonstrate her hypnopaedic prejudices?
She said that alphas and betas didn’t make things like growing plants more than those
nasty little Gammas, Deltas and Epsilon, she feels like they should be superior,
because chemically not all people are equal. To comfort herself she said that is glad
that she isn’t an Epsilon.(p.54-55)

2. What is the purpose of the Solidarity Service?

Solidarity Service’s purpose was to fulfill every men’s need in there.(p. 57-62)

Chapter 6
1. How do Bernard’s dating habits differ from those of the society?
He was a lonely personhe tries to get aaway from crowds and he didn’t want just to
have sex with all the women but he wanted to love just one woman and he will stay
alone until he finds the woman that he can love.(p.64-68)

Chapter 7
1. What sights on the Reservation shock Lenina? Why?
 2. What is the religion on the Savage Reservation?

Chapter 8
1. Why does Linda have difficulty adjusting to the Savage society?

2. How does John learn to read and why?

Linda taught him to read by drawing him some pictures and writing short sentences
beside them. He learnt to read because of those boys who bullied him so he wanted to
feel important by learning to read. (p.95,96)

Chapter 9
1. Why is Bernard bringing Linda and John to civilization?

2. What is John’s concept of love?

I think that john understands the love when he saw Lenina in the bed and he prescribe
every inch of her, admiring her (p.106,107)

Chapter 10
1. Why is it ironic that the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning becomes a
father?
Being a father it brakes the rules that he put in the beginning because he controlles all
the population and he forbidden the word mother and father because those word were
unnatural and ugly.(almost all chapter 10)

Chapter 11
1. What tone is John using when he repeats Miranda’s words in the factory?
His tone was cynical, ironic.(p.118)

2. What effect do the feelies have on John?

Chapter 12
1. Why is it not possible for Mond to publish the biological paper?
After the finishing the book he writes the explanation why it can’t be published because
it might cause problems between workers, “once you began admitting explanations in
terms of purpose–well, you didn't know what the result might be.” (p.132)

2. Why does the Principal refuse to publish Helmholtz’ poem?

Because his poems are against all their sleep-teaching and they have million warnings
about soltitude.(p.135)

3. What is Helmholtz’s opinion of Shakespeare?

His opinion was about Romeo and Juliet which for him was ridiculous to do those things
about having a girl.(p.136)

Chapter 13
1. How does the confrontation between John and Lenina demonstrate
theirdifferences?
The love between them was big, John’s love was romantic so he wanted to be worthy
for Leninawith his love but for lenina it was a foolish thing, so after john’s rejection she
saw this thing as madness. (p.141,142)

Chapter 14
1. Why do children play in the park Lane Hospital for the Dying?
The children goes there regularly to visit the dying and when a person dies they get
candies, and they send children there to be learnt with the death and to accept that.
(p.153,156)

Chapter 15
1. Why does the Savage instigate a riot?

2. Why doesn’t Bernard help the Savage?

Chapter 16
1. Why is the Cyprus experiment important?
A society of twenty-thousandalpahs goes to war but all of them died except only three-
thousand survived so those who survived unanimously petitioned the world controllers
to resume the government of the island to assure social stability.(p.169)

2. Why did the Controller abandon pure science?

Mond has to choose between science and the state, he said that both are dangerous
and that both of them had to be sacrificed for a controlled world.(p.170)

3. Mond relates the best argument for the Brave New World society. What is it?
"You've had no scientific training, so you can't judge. I was a pretty good physicist in my
time. Toogood–good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with
an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes
that mustn't be added to except byspecial permission from the head cook. I'm the head
cook now. But I was an inquisitive young sculliononce. I started doing a bit of cooking
on my own. Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking. A bit of real science, in fact."(taken from
the book p.171)

4. How does Helmholtz gain Mond’s approval and admiration?

Helmholtz tells the controller to be sent on a island with an terrible climate because he
thinks he will write better in a terrible atmosphere so the controller respected Helmholtz
conviction.(p.172)
Chapter 17
1. According to Mond, why is man not independent?
According to Mond the independence for men is unnatural because a man is left
to face old age, weakness, disease and death alone.(p.176)

What right does John claim?

Chapter 18
1. Why does John purify himself at the lighthouse? How does he do it?
He is based on purity before he wanted to live in the lighthouse near God, he has
himself worthy. So he prays to his gods and stands for hours like jesus on the cross.
(p.187,188)

2. How does Lenina act when she sees John at the lighthouse?

3. What happens to John when the crowd begins to imitate his behavior?