Brave New World Quiz: 1-9

The key to making this society function smoothly is:

• Mass production of Alphas conditioned for their jobs

• Elimination of work so everyone can just have fun

• Forcing everyone to like the work they have to do

• Allowing people to follow their own interests

The conditioning of babies to dislike books and nature shows that:

• This culture is capable of cruelty without any feeling of guilt

• Without family life, babies are nothing more than future workers

• This society is built around production and purchase of consumer goods

• All of these

Lenina is going outside the bounds of conventional behavior in BNW by:

• Going out with one man for four months

• Wanting to mix socially with people from the classes below hers

• Wanting to go out with Helmholtz, even after he was warned by the World Controller

• Refusing to play obstacle golf

Bernard is unhappy and maladjusted for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• His small size has damaged his social status and self-respect

• He has lower caste status, but is very intelligent because of a mistake

• He refuses to take soma

• He is troubled by the lack of emotional connection in relationships

Helmholtz is the opposite of Bernard in that:

• He is tall, handsome, and popular

• He is not very intelligent

• He wears the colors of all five castes

• He wants to go out with Lenina

Huxley uses juxtaposition of voices and settings, alternating between Lenina and Fanny in the women's locker room and Henry and Bernard at the hatchery, in order to (Choose TWO):

• create a dialogue between the male point of view and the female

• show that this world that values stability can also be chaotic

• help the reader accept that the World State's morals are strict and 'pure'

• show that Bernard is disliked by everyone

• Both A and B

Why does Huxley use imagery that compares the helicopters to mosquitoes and wasps, the city to a hive, and the Bokanovsky twins to maggots?

• to show that the people of the World State have sacrificed individuality for stability

• to show a good society, where people are busy and productive, like bees

• to show how everything in this society is old and rotten and dirty

• to show that underneath the happy exterior, these people are dangerous

Lenina is shocked and revolted by the Savage Reservation for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• Its rituals include mindless dancing, which is totally unfamiliar to her

• It is dirty, primitive and uncomfortable

• She sees signs of age and disease in the people

• She meets Linda, who is not only fat and dirty, but a mother

John's description of his life on the Reservation shows that (Choose THREE):

• People of all societies discriminate against those who are different

• Linda's inability to adapt to the tribe's moral system made life miserable for both of them

• John feels a strong need to prove himself worthy

• Linda has convinced John that the Reservation is a better way of life

• The people of the Reservation see him as a 'savior'

Brave New World takes place in the year __.

• 2137

• AF 632

• WS 1108

• 2244