| What does the director say is strange about sports during Ford’s day? | That most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. |
| What is necessary for the controllers to allow a new game? | It has to be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games. |
| The director points out two kids playing by themselves, what game are these two kids playing? | a rudimentary sexual game |
| Why does the nurse suspect the boy she is dragging needs to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology? | He seemed reluctant to join in the erotic play with the rest of the kids. |
| What fact about history does the director share with the students that is unbelievable to them? | That back before the time of Ford, erotic play between children was seen as abnormal and immoral, and it was rigorously suppressed. |
| What is the name of the Controller? | Mustapha Mond |
| What does Henry Foster and the Assistant Director of Predestination do to Bernard Marx? | Turned their backs on him to avert themselves from that unsavoury reputation. |
| What word is considered smutty? | Viviparous |
| What is the hypnopedic proverb Mustapha Mond repeats? | “But everyone belongs to everyone else.” |
| What has Lenina been doing that is surprising and disappointing to Fanny? | Been seeing Henry Foster for four months and hasn’t been seeing anyone else on the side. |
| What does Fanny say Henry Foster’s reaction would be if he found out that Lenina was only seeing him and not others? | He would be furious |
| What does Lenina say she hasn’t been very interested in? | Promiscuity (being promiscuous) |
| The Controller, Mustapha, tells the students that they are fortunate that no pains have been spared to prevent them from having what? | Emotions |
| What does Henry Foster say he is surprised about with the Assistant Predestinator? | That he hasn’t had Lenina |
| Who does Lenina say she has some interest in? | Bernard Marx |
| Where has Bernard Marx invited Lenina to go? | Savage Reservation |
| What do they say about Bernard Marx, according to Fanny? | That he doesn’t like obstacle golf and spends most of his time alone. |
| What thoughts does Bernard Marx have that shows the reader he thinks differently from the way others in the society think? | Self control & respect for women; when he hears Henry and the Assistant’s conversation about “having her” it makes him want to punch them in the face. |
| What does Fanny say probably happened to Bernard while he was still in the bottle? | That someone made a mistake and thought he was a gamma so they put alcohol in his blood surrogate. |
| What is Bernard Marx a specialist in? | Hypnopedia |
| What did the Controllers realize was better than force? | Methods of ectogenesis, neo-pavlovian conditioning, and hypnopedia. |
| What did Lenina wear around her waist? | A silver mounted green morocco-surrogate cartridge belt, bulging with the regulation supply of contraceptives. |
| One of the advantages of a really scientific education is that the people of this society have never heard of what man? | Shakespear |
| What does Henry Foster say Bernard Marx is in need of? | A gramme of soma |
| What does Mustapha say about old age in this society? | Stability remained to conquer old age. |
| Throughout Mustapha’s lecture what did he say was in the way of stability before the nine-year war? | Old age |
| According to Mustapha, what is the state of thinking, reading, and culture (i.e., visiting places like museums)? | World State (?) |
Brave New World Ch. 3 Questions
June 6, 2020