| What is the World State’s Motto? | Community, Identity, Stability |
| Why is the Director leading the students through the Hatchery? | To give them a tour before they start work |
| What is the year? When would this be, using our present dating system? | 632 A.F, 2495 |
| How are people classified? | Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon |
| What is the Bokanovsky Process? | An egg will bud, proliferate, and divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo and then into a full-sized adult. |
| How are the bottled embryos moved during their gestation periods? | On racks through the metres on conveyor belts |
| Why are some females allowed a normal, sexual development? What percentage? | They want to have a good choice and olf course one must always have an enormous margin of safety; 30% |
| What had happened when the maturation process had been shortened? | The class in which the egg is in is lowered. They have a child like mind. |
| How does the introduction of Henry Foster give a businesslike feeling to the Hatchery procedure? | It made him seem like he was a very busy man; and stating his facts showed he knew what he was talk about. |
| What does Lenina’s reaction to the Director’s familiarity show about their relationship? | It shoes they’re comfortable with each other, its not all business. |
| What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned? | Eight/nine month old–Deltas |
| What is the first conditioning mechanism used? The second? | FLowers and Books W/ explosions & shock |
| Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country? | to compel them to consume transport |
| What words have become “dirty words”? | Parents–Mother, Father |
| How is Reuben Rabinovitch able to repeat the G. B. Shaw lecture? | By hypnopaedia |
| Why were early sleep-teaching experiments abandoned? | The information was memorized by the information was not utilized. |
| When was hypnopaedia first used successfully? | 214 A. F. |
| How often is each hypnopaedic lesson repeated to be successful? | 120 times 3 times a week for 30 months |
| The director says that wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale. What reasons does he give for this? | It cannot bring how finer distinctions; cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior; “It doesn’t mean anything” |
| WHose suggestions are incorporated into the children’s minds? | Our suggestions (suggestions from the state) |
| What are the only new games the Controllers now approve? Why? | Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be show that it requires at least as much apparatus as most complicated of existing games. |
| Who is the stranger who appears and startles the Director? | Mustapha Mond |
| What has been advised for Fanny Corwne to relieve her depression? | A pregnancy substitute |
| What has been advised for Fanny Crowne to relieve her depression? | A pregnancy substitute |
| What other name is Our Ford known by? When is that name used? | Our Freud; whenever he spoke of psychological matters |
| What does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students? | He was raised normally with a family. |
| Why is Fanny worried about Lenina’s habits? | Because the DHC objects to anything intense or long-drawn |
| Why is Bernard shunned by most people? | He is an Alpha plus with distorted features like a gamma and he doesn’t like obstacle golf. |
| What is the purpose of Lenina’s Malthusian belt? Why must she wear it? | It was a surrogate cartridge belt with a supply of contraceptives. |
| What is soma? | Drug that makes you happy. |
| Where is Lenina when she tries to discuss the New Mexico trip with Bernard? | The lift |
| Why is Bernard embarrassed by Lenina’s conversation? | Because it was in front of many other alpha plus males |
| What is the difference in the way Bernard and Lenina look at the warm blue sky when they reach the roof? | Bernard is into the essence; Lenina put its beauty to relevance with obstacle golf |
| When Benito sees that Bernard is in bad temper, what does he offer? | A gramme of soma |
| What does Lenina say during the flight with Henry that demonstrates she is a true product of conditioning? | “What a hideous color khaki is.” |
| How does Bernard treat those of lower caste than he is? Why? | He is not as tall as an Alpha plus should be so he is sharp and shots at the lower caste workers. |
| What caste is Helmholtz? What is his job? | Alpha plus; lecture at the college of emotional engineering |
| What does Watson compare words to? Explain the comparison. | X-rays, they can pierce anything |
| What does Watson quietly feel about his friend Bernard? | He feels sorry for him, he wishes Bernard had more self-esteem |
| In what type of housing are the lower castes? Ho are Alphas and Betas housed? | The lower castes were in barracks, the Alphas & Betas were in smaller houses |
| What is done with the dead in the New World? | They were cremated |
| How does Lenina demonstrate that her childhood conditioning has been effective? | When she calls them “nasty little Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilon” and “I’m glad I am not an Epsilon” |
| What does Lenina ask Henry about as she is getting ready to sleep with him? | Where he had bought the belt. |
| When must Bernard attend his Solidarity meetings? | Alternate Thursdays |
| How many people are in each Solidarity Group? How are they seated? | 12; man, women, man |
| Why is Bernard unhappy about sitting next to Morgana Rothschild? | She had a gross unibrow |
| What ritual is performed during the First Solidarity Hymn? | A cup of strawberry ice cream soma was passed around and each repeated, “I drink to my annihilation.” |
| How does the Solidarity Group meeting end? | They sang the “Orgy Porgy” Hymn |
| How does Bernard feel after the meeting? | He was miserably isolated now; separate and unatoned; much more alone and hopeless |
| To what does Henry Foster compare Bernard? | A rhinocerous |
| What does Bernard want Lenina to do on their first afternoon their first afternoon together? | He just wants to relax and talk |
| When Bernard and Lenina meet her friends in Amsterdam, how does he behave? | Very conditioned and selfish |
| How does Bernard frighten Lenina during their return over the Channel? | He stopped the propellors to show her the sea but dark weather had sprung up |
| What is the Director’s attitude toward Bernard’s trip tot he Reservation? | He was surprised; it brought back many memories to him |
| What does the Director sometimes dream about regarding his experience at the Reservation? | Of being woken up by that peal of thunder and finding her gone |
| How does the Director threaten Bernard for his reported behavior? | To transfer him to the sub-centre in Iceland |
| What are Bernard’s only thoughts during the Warden’s lecture? | About how he left his Eau de Cologne tap on |
| How does Bernard react when he hears the DIrector has made good on his threat of exile? | He was shocked and wondered what it would be like |
| Why doesn’t Lenina like the Indian guide? | He was queer very queer and he smells |
| To what does Lenina compare the tope of the mesa? | Charing-T Tower |
| What shocks Lenina about the old man? | He was an “aged” type of old |
| How does Bernard try to appear strong and brave? | By acting very nonchalant |
| Of what do the drums remind Lenina? | The “Orgy Porgy” Hymn |
| How does the new Savage appear different? | His hair was straw colored, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin white and bronzed |
| What about Lenina fascinates the blonde Indian? | That he wanted to be hit with the whip |
| Why is Bernard so excited with the answers the Savage gives to his questions? | Because he knew about their civilized life |
| Why was Linda segregated by the rest of the pueblo? | She was with everyone’s husbands |
| What can the reader infer Linda hopes will happen now? | That she will be returned to the civilized world |
| What is one of John’s earliest memories? | His mom signing to him then waking to a man yelling at Linda |
| What do the women do to Linda in the weaving Room? Why? | They push her and yell at her because she doesn’t know how to weave. |
| How do the women punish Linda for her promiscuity? | They whip her |
| When John called Linda “mother”, what does she do? What does he always call her after that? | She slaps him, from then he calls her Linda |
| Why does John often turn to the old men of the tribe? | They give him definite answers. |
| Why is John always in ragged clothes? What is his solace? | His mother doesn’t know how to mend them. He can read and others cant |
| What book does Popé bring for John? | Shakespeare |
| What does Mitisma teach John? | He teaches him to work clay |
| What does John do when he is denied the initiation rite? | He doesn’t eat for 5 days and goes to the mountain by himself |
| When Bernard offers to take John to London, what does John ask? | If Linda can go with and if he is married to Lenina |
| How does Lenina handle the disgust of her visit to the Reservation when she returns to the guest home? | She takes 6 tablets of soma and slept for 18 hours |
| Does Bernard sleep? Why? | No because he goes to Santa Fé for business |
| Whom does Bernard called from Santa Fé? Why? | Mustapha Mond, to see if he can bring John and Linda back |
| What does Mond do when he receives Bernard’s call? | He sends the necessary orders to the Warden of the Reservation |
| Why does Bernard treat the Warden the way he does? | To show his worth |
| How does John feel when he comes to the rest home? | He was upset, crying |
| Why does John break the window? | He saw Lenina’s bag and wanted to see her things |
| How does John handle Lenina’s clothes and make-up? | He handles them like something very precious |
| What causes John to leave? | He heard the growing buzzing noise of the helicopter. |
A Brave New World Study Questions
June 6, 2020