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Brave New World (Chapters 1-4)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Where does chapter 1 take place?
a)
The Savage Reservation
b)
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center
c)
A school in London
d)
A factory in London
2.
To whom is the DHC talking to?
a)
Schoolboys
b)
A group of Deltas
c)
Psychologists
d)
A group of Alphas
3.
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
4.
What is being observed 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.
5.
What is decanting?
a)
The beginning of making a human being.
b)
Freezing embryos
c)
Destroying embryos
d)
When humans are "born" out of the incubation process.
6.
What is hypnopaedia?
a)
Embryo engineering
b)
Advanced hypnosis
c)
Using shocks to condition children
d)
Sleep teaching
7.
What caste is Lenina Crowne?
a)
Alpha
b)
Beta 
c)
Gamma
d)
Delta
8.
Who is Bernard Marx's best friend?
a)
Helmholtz Watson
b)
Lenina Crowne
c)
Henry Foster
d)
Benito Hoover
9.
What words have become “dirty words”?
a)
Words like individuality, creativity, and adventurousness
b)
Words like rebellion, revolution, and independence
c)
Words like war, bombing, killing, and any form of armed conflict.
d)
Words like mother, father, born, parents, and any intimate family relationship words.
10.
A.F. stands for
a)
another Friday
b)
After Ford
c)
alternate function
d)
Always and Forever!
11.
Which of the following is a World Controller?
a)
Mustapha Mond
b)
Henry Foster
c)
Benito Hoover
d)
Bernard Marx
12.
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
13.
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.
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.
What is the World State's motto?
a)
Community, Equality, and Fraternity
b)
Community, Identity, and Stability
c)
Faith, Equality, and Stability
d)
Excellence, Adherence, and Performance
16.
How are people classified?
a)
Alphas, Gammas, Deltas, Omegas, Rhos, Lambdas
b)
Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Omegas, and Enigmas.
c)
Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.
d)
Winners and Losers
17.

Why is Helmholtz Watson dissatisfied?

a)

He is uninspired by his work.

b)

He has had too many partners.

c)

He is too short.

d)

Nobody wants to be around him.

18.

What is soma?

a)

A game played with an apparatus.

b)

A government issued euphoric, narcotic, and hallucinogenic drug.

c)

Social conditioning that makes people hate flowers.

d)

Another word for a person in the World State.

19.
What is the year? 
a)
632 AF
b)
632 AD
c)
2017 AF
d)
124 AF
20.
What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned in Chapter 2?
a)
Eight-year-old children, and they were all dressed in black, which meant their caste was Delta.
b)
Eight-year-old children, and they were all dressed in khaki, which meant their caste was Epsilon.
c)
Eight-month-old children, and they were all dressed in black, which meant their caste was Epsilon.
d)
Eight-month-old babies, and they were all dressed in khaki, which meant their caste was Delta.
21.
In Chapter 2, whose suggestions are incorporated into the children’s minds?
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Doctors
c)
Parents
d)
The State
22.
Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country?
a)
To consume transportation and sports equipment
b)
To work in the coal mines
c)
To become effective soldiers
d)
To work in the car factories
23.
Three major thinkers from the Victorian Age who influenced the modern era were...
a)
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
b)
Descartes, Voltaire, and Rousseau
c)
Einstein, Lincoln, and Roosevelt
d)
Darwin, Marx, and Freud
24.
After the 2nd World War, England...
a)
Lost its empire almost entirely.
b)
Regained its empire.
c)
Rejected immigration.
d)
Lost its intellectual class.
25.
Deltas are conditioned to hate flowers because...
a)
Nature is dangerous
b)
Enjoying the country isn't economically prosperous.
c)
Flowers are beautiful, and beauty is dangerous.
d)
There are no more flowers.