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BNW 14-18

Authored by Sara Spencer

English

11th - 12th Grade

31 Questions

CCSS covered

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BNW 14-18
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the Cyprus-Experiment?

The experiment that created the World State.

An island of all alphas that resulted in civil war.

An island where they exile all the independent thinkers.

How the World State discovered hypnopedia.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What metaphor does Mustapha Mond use to describe the “optimum population?”

A pyramid

A mountain

An iceberg

A bottle

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why do they not have a 4-hour work day?

The extra leisure time lead to unrest and increased soma holidays.

The society would fall apart.

It would ruin the economy.

Ford said the best work time is 7.5 hours.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What does it mean to be sent to an island?

It means that you are addicted to soma.

It means that you are too good for the World State.

It means that your conditioning makes you more suitable to tropical climates.

It means you have unconventional ideas and desires that can contaminate the rest of the society.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What does the controller decide is John’s sentence?

Exile him to an island.

Put him through conditioning.

Make him remain in the World State experiment.

Make him burn his Shakespeare book.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What ruined John’s solitude?

After the feely film came out about him, everyone had to go see.

He wrote a letter that got published in the newspaper.

Mustapha Mond sent people to watch him.

He asked Lenina to come visit him.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In chapter 15, John sees two Bokanovsky twins packing up their soma rations. What does he yell to them?

To stop taking it because it is poison.
To stop taking it because it controls them & they should choose freedom.
To stop taking it because it will kill them.
To not take too much so they don't go on "soma holiday."

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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