Brave New World Chapters 1 - 6

To whom is the Director talking to in chapter 1?

• Schoolboys
• A group of Deltas
• Psychologists
• A group of other directors

What is Bokanovsky's Process?

• Learning at an accellerated rate
• Hatching humans already full grown
• A technique used for creating Alphas and Betas
• Creating numerous people from one embryo

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What is being examined in Chapter 1?

• The assembly line where humans are made.
• A group of young children playing.
• The conditioning of young children.
• A process for weeding out bad genetic traits.

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How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?

• By preventing the children from ever seeing books or flowers
• By using hypnopaedia to teach them that they are worthless
• By spanking the children when they approach books or flowers
• By sounding alarms and shocking the children

Why are the lower-caste children conditioned to dislike flowers but love sports?

• To make sure they never leave their caste.
• To destroy their creativity.
• To make them buy things and keep the economy running.
• To make them strong and unemotional.

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What is hypnopaedia?

• A sport that uses elaborate machinery.
• A way to create babies from tubes.
• The drug used to keep everyone happy.
• A type of sleep teaching used to instill morals.

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What does Elementary Caste Consciousness teach the children?

• To love their caste and reject all others.
• The importance of each caste and how do move into a new one.
• How to do their future jobs.
• Complex, scientific theories.

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Who is Mustapha Mond?

• The Director of the center for hatcheries and conditioning.
• An epsilon semi-moron.
• One of the ten World Controllers.
• The man Lenina has been seeing for too  long.

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The World State was created because of...

• The Nine Years' War
• World War III
• A lack of democracy
• A new religion

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Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous? 

• Because she thinks Lenina is lonely
• Because she thinks Henry Foster is treating Lenina poorly
• Because “every one belongs to every one else”
• Because she thinks Bernard Marx is attractive

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