Brave New WorldReading Review Questions Part 1, Chapters 1 - 6

Chapter 1

  1. In what city is the novel set?
  1. What is the World State's motto? How does this differ from the motto of the French Revolution?
  2. What does D.H.C. stand for, and why is this person so important?
  3. In what year is the novel set? (What year do they say, and what year is that on our calendar?)
  4. What is Bokanovsky's process?
  5. Bokanovsky's process is one of the major instruments of what? Why is this significant?
  6. Where is the level of each Bokanovsky group determined?
  7. What are the different levels in this society?
  8. What are freemartins?
  9. What are the embryos given less of to keep them subpar?
  10. Who is the girl Mr. Foster greets before the end of the tour?

Chapter 2

  1. In what rooms are the Delta babies taught to dislike books and flowers?
  2. What two things are done to the babies to create this reaction?
  3. What principle was discovered in the case of Reuben Rabinovitch?
  4. What does A.F. stand for?
  5. How is time measured in this society?
  6. What kind of education is given to the children by following this principle?

Chapter 3

  1. In order to be approved, new games must demonstrate what? Why?
  2. What happens to the boy who is reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play?
  3. Who is the Resident Controller for Western Europe?
  4. How many World Controllers are there?
  5. What “beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's” does the Controller repeat?
  6. Who is Lenina's friend, and what last name do they share?
  7. What was Ford called when he dealt with psychological matters?
  8. What is the hynopaedic proverb about belonging?
  9. According to the Controller, what two things prevent people from being stable?
  10. Fanny tells Lenina that she ought to be more what?
  11. What does the Controller say is the prime and ultimate need?
  12. Where has Bernard Marx invited Lenina to go with him?
  13. Lenina wears a cartridge belt filled with what?
  14. Where did the symbolic T's come from?

Chapter 4

  1. How does Bernard react when Lenina agrees to go with him? Why?

2. What two things does Lenina say that demonstrate her hypnopaedic training?

3. Why is it distressing to Bernard to have dealings with members of a lower caste?

4. What is the “mental excess” of Helmholtz Watson, and how is this affecting him?

5. What do Bernard and Helmholtz share?

Chapter 5

  1. How is phosphorous recovered, and what is it used for?
  2. How are the stars described, and why?
  3. What does it mean when Henry and Lenina are described as “bottled”?
  4. What is the goal of the solidarity meeting that Bernard attends?
  5. What do the people drink to at the meeting?
  6. What is Bernard's reaction during the Solidarity Service?

Chapter 6

  1. In what ways is Bernard's behavior “disquieting”?
  2. What is it that Bernard wants to know and to feel?
  3. What had happened to the Director at the New Mexico reservation many years before?
  4. What surrounds the Reservation, and why?
  5. What news does Bernard get when he calls Helmholtz, and how does Bernard react?