Brave New World

What is most likely the author’s reason for starting with a description of the building, from outside to inside?

• He is developing the scene like Dickens would, or a film: establishing shot; interior.

• The state of the society would be very hard to guess without a clear introduction.

• He is taking us to a time in the distant future where everything is unfamiliar.

• The entire novel takes place inside this building.

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How does the physical description of the Director add to the development of the scene?

• Our reaction to him establishes the mood for the rest of the book.

• It’s an easy way to tip us off that six hundred and thirty-two years have passed since some colossal change.

• He is the character around whom the rest of the novel will revolve.

• By imparting a sense of clean-and-shiny biotechnical advancement and awe.

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“Bokanovsky’s Process,” repeated the Director, and the students underlined the words in their little note-books.

One egg, one embryo, one adult — normality. But a bokanov­skified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.

• The scientist who developed the process was married to a man named Bokanovsky.

• The process is a revolutionary breakthrough that will transform society.

• One fertilized egg divided into so many embryos will certainly develop problems later.

• There will be no more social conflict once everyone is exactly alike.

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The narration is rendered from a ______ person point of view, in the ______ tense.

• First; past.

• Third; present.

• Third; past.

• First; present.

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What is the central idea or theme of the excerpt below?

“Just to give you a general idea,” he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently — though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

• The society of the novel is guided by materialist and scientific values rather than intellectual or spiritual ones.

• The students are only receiving some of the available information about the process.

• The students are being encouraged to question the wisdom of eugenics.

• Everyone in this future society collects stamps.

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Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• “‘Just to give you a general idea,’ he would explain to them.”

• “For of course some general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently --- though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible.”

• “For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils.”

• “Not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

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Which of these inferences is best supported by the excerpt below?

“My good boy!” The Director wheeled sharply round on him. “Can’t you see? Can’t you see?” He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. “Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!”

Major instruments of social stability.

Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg.

“Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!” The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm.

“You really know where you are. For the first time in history.” He quoted the planetary motto. “Community, Identity, Stability.” Grand words. “If we could bokanovskify indefi­nitely the whole problem would be solved.”

• The Director has lost his mind.

• The Director is unsure that the students are “getting it,” but that doesn’t matter.

• Unquestioned scientific advancement leads societal decision-making.

• The Director is Bokanovsky him/herself, in disguise.

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Which sentence from the text best supports your answer to Question 7?

• “‘My good boy!’”

• “...major instruments of social stability.”

• “The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg.”

• “If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.”

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