Brave New World - Chapters 1-2

What is the Bokanovsky Process?

• 72 fertilized eggs are separated into different castes
• A single superior egg is selected from 96 possible embryos
• A single egg is divided into two, creating twins
• A fertilized egg divides many times creating 96 identical copies.  

How are people classified?

• Alphas, Gammas, Deltas, Omegas, Rhos, Lambdas
• Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Omegas, and Enigmas.
• Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.
• Winners and Losers

What is the year?

• 632 AF

• 632 AD

• 2017 AF

• 2400 AD

What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned in Chapter 2?

• Eight-year-old children, and they were all dressed in black, which meant their caste was Delta.
• Eight-year-old children, and they were all dressed in khaki, which meant their caste was Epsilon.
• Eight-month-old children, and they were all dressed in black, which meant their caste was Epsilon.
• Eight-month-old babies, and they were all dressed in khaki, which meant their caste was Delta.

What is the World State's motto?

• Community, Equality, and Fraternity
• Community, Identity, and Stability
• Faith, Equality, and Stability
• Excellence, Adherence, and Performance

What words have become “dirty words”?

• Words like individuality, creativity, and adventurousness
• Words like rebellion, revolution, and independence
• Words like war, bombing, killing, and any form of armed conflict.
• Words like mother, father, born, parents, and any intimate family relationship words.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

How often is each hypnopaedic lesson repeated to be successful?

• Each lesson is used just once.
• Each lesson is repeated 120 times, three times a week, for 30 months.
• Each lesson must be repeated at least three times over three nights.
• Each lesson is repeated 100 times, once a night, over four months.

In Chapter 2, whose suggestions are incorporated into the children’s minds?

• Henry Ford
• Doctors
• Parents
• The State

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country?

• To consume transportation and sports equipment
• To work in the coal mines
• To become effective soldiers
• To work in the car factories

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

How is Reuben Rabinovitch able to repeat the G. B. Shaw
lecture?

• Reuben studied it in school.
• Reuben was allowed to move into the Delta group.
• He was conditioned to react negatively to flowers.
• A radio was accidentally left on in Reuben’s room while he slept.