Brave New World questions

Chapter 1 Questions Study Questions 1. What is the World State’s motto? 2. Why is the Director leading the students through the Hatchery? 3. What is the year? When would this be, using our present dating system? 4. How are people classified? 5. What is the Bokanovsky Process? 6. How are the bottled embryos moved during their gestation periods? 7. Why are some females allowed a normal, sexual development? What percentage? 8. What had happened when the maturation process had been shortened? 9. How does the introduction of Henry Foster give a businesslike feeling to the Hatchery procedure? 10. What does Lenina’s reaction to the Director’s familiarity show about their relationship? Chapter 2 Questions Study Questions 1. What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned? 2. What is the first conditioning mechanism used? The second? 3. Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country? 4. What words have become “dirty words”? 5. How is Reuben Rabinovitch able to repeat the G. B. Shaw lecture? 6. Why were early sleep-teaching experiments abandoned? 7. When was hypnopaedia first used successfully? 8. How often is each hypnopaedic lesson repeated to be successful? 9. The Director says that wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale. What reasons does he give for this? 10. Whose suggestions are incorporated into the children’s minds? Chapter 3 Questions Study Questions 1. What are the only new games the Controllers now approve? Why? 2. Who is the stranger who appears and startles the Director? 3. Why is Bernard Marx upset with Henry Foster’s talk? 4. What has been advised for Fanny Crowne to relieve her depression? 5. What other name is Our Ford known by? When is this name used? 6. What does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students? 7. Why is Fanny worried about Lenina’s dating habits? 8. Why is Bernard shunned by most people? 9. What is the purpose of Lenina’s Malthusian belt? Why must she wear it? 10. What is soma?