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

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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'

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Brave New World takes place in the year __.

• 2137

• AF 632

• WS 1108

• 2244