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Brave New World Test Study Guide

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do the citizens of World State address their emotions?

a)

Take Soma in order to eliminate unpleasant emotions

b)

Go to therapy in order to reprogram their minds

c)

They are conditioned to never feel emotions

d)

They have promiscuous sex

2.

How is the population and the World State stabilized?

a)

Conditioning

b)

Consumption

c)

Caste system

d)

Pleasure seeking

e)

All options

3.

What does the group experience at Bernard's Solidarity Meeting?

a)

Connection to the Great Being and an orgy

b)

Connection to God and have sex in designated rooms

c)

A high off of Soma and experience a psychedelic trip off of the drug

d)

Connection to a Creator and their Sex God

4.

What writer represents culture and emotional connections in Brave New World?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Shelley

c)

Poe

d)

Keats

5.

Why does John agree to return to the World State?

a)

He wants to meet his father, the director

b)

He wants to meet his mother, Lenina

c)

He wants to meet his sister, Linda

d)

He wants to meet his brother, Helmholtz

6.

How is John treated when he returns with Bernard to the World State?

a)

He is treated like a spectacle

b)

He is conditioned to be a Beta

c)

He establishes a new model of family

d)

He goes to intellectual war with Helmholtz

7.

What does John realize when he watches the children laughing at religious rituals?

a)

Children are conditioned to accept death without hesitation

b)

Sexual immorality is promoted, there is no sexual sin

c)

Religion is entertaining and practiced like magic tricks at parties

d)

Children can't take anything seriously

8.

How does Helmholtz feel about the plays that are introduced to him by John?

a)

He embraces them and begins to appreciate emotion and culture

b)

He rejects them just like every other relic from the reservation

c)

He doesn't understand but appreciates that John can find pleasure in it

d)

He gives the plays away to trade for sexual favors

9.

Why does John refuse Soma?

a)

He would rather feel deep sadness and the full range of emotions

b)

He wants everyone to see how profound he is

c)

He has allergic reactions to Soma and doesn't want to risk his life

d)

He would rather Lenina see his thoughtful side before they have sex so she knows he cares

10.

How does Lenina change?

a)

She never changes

b)

She begins to love John

c)

She has sex with every man she can see to make John jealous

d)

She becomes deconditioned and loves Bernard

11.

What disgusts John about the workers at the hospital?

a)

The sameness of the twins

b)

The orgy that broke out when they start taking soma

c)

The chaos caused by the soma distribution

d)

How much soma they are taking

12.

John reacts to his mother's death by showing his love and concern. How is this seen by the nurse and the people in general?

a)

It is considered extremely inappropriate because they individual is always insignificant.

b)

It is considered totally appropriate. Death is the only time the people are permitted to express their true feelings.

c)

It is considered a heroic act.

d)

It is considered a disgusting, filthy act punishable by alienation.

13.

What happens to Bernard and Helmholtz?

a)

They are both banished to islands to live with other people who could not fit into society.

b)

They are sent to the Home for the Dying to be killed quietly.

c)

They are brainwashed and reprogrammed into lower caste workers.

d)

They escape and live among the savages.

14.

Many things are banned because they would upset the stability of society. Which of the following items is not banned?

a)

Friendship

b)

Art

c)

Literature

d)

Science

15.

What does John mean when he says, "I claim them all"?

a)

He wants to have a life that includes the full range of human passions.

b)

He is establishing himself as the heir to his mother's money and possessions.

c)

He is responsible for the demise of Bernard and Helmholtz.

d)

He is a brother to all society, including the Savages.

16.

John wants to show his grief for his mother and his anger at society. He also wants to get rid of his desire for Lenina. What does he do?

a)

He tortures himself.

b)

He screams and cries for a few hours, then falls into a trance-like sleep for a week.

c)

He writes about his feelings, makes copies of his writing and distributes it to all he sees.

d)

He goes back to the reservation to fast and pray.

17.

How does John's life end at the end of the novel?

a)

He hangs himself.

b)

He returns to the reservation and stays there.

c)

He blends into society and eventually becomes the D.H.C.

d)

He assembles a group of followers and becomes an agent for social change.

18.

How are the children conditioned to associate pleasant things with death?

a)

They visit the home for the Dying and are given candy.

b)

They attend funerals from an early age.

c)

They are given pets, which are then killed. They receive presents when the pets die. The process is repeated several times through childhood.

19.

What does John attempt to do after Linda's death?

a)

He tries to stop the soma distribution because he sees it as harmful and the cause of her death

b)

He commits suicide by hanging

c)

He asks to be permitted to hold a funeral service and perform ritual tribal dances, but he is refused.

d)

He tries to return to the savages but is not permitted to do so.

20.

What does John take place in the day before his suicide?

a)

Soma consumption and an orgy porgy

b)

Goes back to civilization to see the feely, of which he is the star

c)

Finally marries Lenina, even though she will never understand the ceremony

d)

A tribal ritual of cleansing where he burned all of his crops and tools