WorksheetsBrave New World Chapters 1 - 6
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Name
Class
Date
1.
To whom is the Director talking to in chapter 1?
a)
Students
b)
A group of Deltas
c)
Psychologists
d)
A group of other directors
2.
What is Bokanovsky's Process?
a)
Learning at an accellerated rate
b)
Hatching humans already full grown
c)
A technique used for creating Alphas and Betas
d)
Creating numerous people from one embryo
3.
What is being examined in Chapter 1?
a)
The assembly line where humans are made.
b)
A group of young children playing.
c)
The conditioning of young children.
d)
A process for weeding out bad genetic traits.
4.
How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
a)
By preventing the children from ever seeing books or flowers
b)
By using hypnopaedia to teach them that they are worthless
c)
By spanking the children when they approach books or flowers
d)
By sounding alarms and shocking the children
5.
Why are the lower-caste children conditioned to dislike flowers but love sports?
a)
To make sure they never leave their caste.
b)
To destroy their creativity.
c)
To make them buy things and keep the economy running.
d)
To make them strong and unemotional.
6.
What is hypnopaedia?
a)
A sport that uses elaborate machinery.
b)
A way to create babies from tubes.
c)
The drug used to keep everyone happy.
d)
A type of sleep teaching used to instill morals.
7.
What does Elementary Caste Consciousness teach the children?
a)
To love their caste and reject all others.
b)
The importance of each caste and how do move into a new one.
c)
How to do their future jobs.
d)
Complex, scientific theories.
8.
Who is Mustapha Mond?
a)
The Director of the center for hatcheries and conditioning.
b)
An epsilon semi-moron.
c)
One of the ten World Controllers.
d)
The man Lenina has been seeing for too long.
9.
The World State was created because of...
a)
The Nine Years' War
b)
World War III
c)
A lack of democracy
d)
A new religion
10.
Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous?
a)
Because she thinks Lenina is lonely
b)
Because she thinks Henry Foster is treating Lenina poorly
c)
Because “every one belongs to every one else”
d)
Because she thinks Bernard Marx is attractive
11.
Bernard Marx dislikes his workmates because...
a)
They speak about Lenina disrespectfully.
b)
They are alphas, and he is a beta.
c)
They don't understand social conditioning as well as he does.
d)
They took his job.
12.
What is something that people SHOULD NOT do in this society.
a)
Do drugs
b)
Work hard
c)
Think deeply
d)
Have sex
13.
Lenina comments "What a horrible colour khaki is" (62). What does this show?
a)
That her personality is not as likeable as it seems.
b)
That she is different from everyone else, just like Bernard.
c)
That she has been spending too much time with Henry.
d)
That hypnopaedia works and is almost unnoticeable to them.
14.
Why does Bernard have to shout at the Deltas? Why won't they obey him?
a)
They do not see him as an Alpha because of his size.
b)
They know his reputation and try to ignore him.
c)
All Deltas try to disobey Alphas unless they are put in their place.
d)
He doesn't. They do what he says immediately.
15.
Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
a)
Both feel isolated from the World State's society
b)
Both are committed to trying to change the World State
c)
Both are revered by the World State
d)
They work together.
16.
What are people used for after they die and are cremated in the World State?
a)
Their ashes are used for scientific research.
b)
They are not used, but just dumped into the air.
c)
Their phosphorus gasses are used for agriculture.
d)
Their phosphorus gasses are used for creating new humans.
17.
How does Bernard feel after the service?
a)
He feels happy that he is part of the group.
b)
He looks forward to the next service with anticipation.
c)
He feels more alone and isolated than before he went to the service.
d)
Because he did not achieve his goals at the service, he contemplates suicide.
18.
Why is Lenina rethinking her decision to go to Savage Reservation with Bernard?
a)
She feels unworthy of being Bernard's date.
b)
She is afraid of the savages.
c)
She thinks that Bernard's behavior is odd.
d)
She is afraid of flying such a long distance.
19.
The Director tells Bernard about an experience he had at the Savage Reservation. What is that experience?
a)
He was attacked by the savages.
b)
He had a sexual encounter with one of the savage women.
c)
A girl he was with was lost at the Reservation.
d)
His helicopter crashed while it was attempting to land.
20.
What is NOT a reason the Director threatened to send Bernard to Iceland?
a)
Because of Bernard's strange and unusual behavior, like not being infantile in his emotional behavior.
b)
Because the Director revealed too much emotion during his story and was upset that he showed Bernard.
c)
Because Bernard insulted him and waved his new relationship with Lenina in his face.
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