Directions: Be Familiar with Everything

Directions: Be Familiar with Everything

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Brave New World

Study Guide

Directions: Be familiar with everything.

Matching: Know these terms/characters.

  • Bokanovsky
  • Ford
  • Helmholtz
  • Huxley
  • John
  • Juliet
  • Lenina
  • Linda
  • Malpais
  • Marx
  • Mitsima
  • Alpha
  • Delta
  • Director

Multiple Choice: These are the questions. The choices have been omitted.

  • A certain treatment is performed to “make people like their unescapable social destiny.” What is it called?
  • Why are the babies being conditioned to hate books and flowers?
  • Bernard Marx is different from his associates in many ways. Which of these sentences does not describe him?
  • What is soma?
  • How are Bernard and Helmholtz alike?
  • Why is Bernard unable to feel the oneness with his group at the Solidarity Service?
  • How are Linda and John different from the other savages?
  • What feeling do Bernard and John have in common?
  • How do the people react when they first meet John and Linda?
  • Why does John refuse to come to the party?
  • Which of these is not one of Bernard’s reactions to his downfall?
  • John reacts to his mother’s death by showing his love and concern. How is this seen by the nurse and the people in general?
  • What happens to Bernard and Helmholtz?
  • What does John mean when he says, “I claim them all”?
  • To what end does John come?
  • Which is not a fault Aldous Huxley points out about our society in Brave New World?
  • This was not one of the most important factors in the new world:

Matching: Know these terms/characters.

  • feelies
  • soma
  • Malthusian Drill
  • viviparous
  • hypnopaedia
  • puberty
  • Alphas
  • Epsilons
  • monorail
  • Mustapha Mond

Multiple Choice: These are the questions. The choices have been omitted.

  • Death in the World State means sudden senility but no:
  • Before the feelies began, entertainment was provided by:
  • The Savage (John) felt that the feelies were:
  • John believes the people of the World State have made some sacrifices for their kind of happiness. Among these are science and:
  • The purpose of death conditioning is to create an attitude of:
  • When John sees the countless identical workers in the Electrical Equipment Company, he:
  • Bernard is deported because of his desire for:
  • Having only one partner in marriage is known as:
  • The words “O brave new world” were taken from Shakespeare’s play:
  • In their off-working hours, the people of the World State were supposed to act like civilized:
  • The Malpais reservation where John and Linda lived was located in:
  • The word “mother” was considered in the World State to be:
  • The Solidarity Service, a meeting for members of the upper castes, ended in:
  • Most of the women of the World State were sterile and were known as:
  • John caused a riot when he tried to do away with:

Matching: Know these terms/characters.

  • Linda
  • Lenina Crowne
  • Bernard Marx
  • Helmholtz Watson
  • Mustapha Mond
  • Miranda
  • Henry Foster
  • Pope
  • Tomakin
  • Arch-Community Songster of Canterbury

True/False: Decide whether each statement is True or False.

  • The State took children away from their mothers at an early age.
  • Duties in the factories were often performed by a single Bokanovsky group.
  • Dead persons were given elaborate funeral services.
  • Community sings were for lower castes only.
  • Decanting was the process of removing embryos from the bottles in which they matured.
  • The Voice of Good Feelings welcomed visitors to the Feely Palaces.
  • A surrogate is a minor political leader.
  • Residents of the World State could be exiled for nonconformity.
  • People were kept busy consuming goods so they would keep up the economy and not trouble the government much.
  • Since the people were always content and secure, they had no need of a god.
  • John eventually takes soma and engages in an orgy.
  • Since he knows he will be sent back to the reservation, John drowns himself in the English channel.
  • Ford is the official god of the World State’s religion.
  • Lenina is so conditioned that she cannot experience the emotions that John believes should be a part of one’s life.
  • John was not accepted on the reservation because of his looks and also because of Linda’s way of life.