Submit your answers to the daily reading questions on a piece of paper or through the google drive.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter 1 Day 1
1. What is the World State’s motto? What do you think it implies?
2. Describe the tour in Chapter 1.
3. What is the year? (What do you think A.F. means?)
4. What are the castes for classifying people? List & give a very brief description.
5. What is the Bokanovsky Process? Describe as best as you can.
6. What is being made at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?
7. About 30% of females are allowed to develop sexually. Why are 70% not allowed to develop normally?
8. Why did the experiments fail that made sexually mature humans at 4 years old, fully grown at 6 ½?
9. What type of information does Henry Foster contribute to the tour?
10. What do you think about this book so far? Give your first impressions – good, bad or otherwise.
BNW Chapter 2 Day 2
1. What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned?
2. What is the first conditioning mechanism used with lever 1? What does lever 2 do?
3. What is the world state’s objective in having the lower castes want to go to the country?
4. What words have become “dirty words”? (list at least three)
5. What is the one-word term to describe how Reuben Rabinovitch was able to repeat the George Bernard
Shaw lecture? What does the word mean?
6. Why were the early sleep−teaching experiments abandoned? What was the problem?
7. When was hypnopaedia first used successfully? (Date)
8. How often is each hypnopaedic lesson repeated to be successful? Be specific. You can quote the text.
9. What are the colors the Alphas, Gammas, Deltas & Epsilons wear? (Beta is mulberry)
10. Where do the messages incorporated into the children’s minds come from?
BNW Chapter 3 Day 3
1. What type of games will the World Controllers approve? Why?
2. Who is the stranger who appears and startles the Director? Name & describe him briefly.
3. Why is Bernard Marx upset with Henry Foster?
4. Pregnancy Substitute, Corpus Luteum, Ovarin, Mammary Gland Extract, Placentin. Speculate why Lenina,
Fanny & the women of the world state have so many medications.
5. What subject does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students?
6. Why is Fanny worried about Lenina’s dating habits?
7. Why is Bernard shunned by most people?
8. What is the purpose of Lenina’s Malthusian belt? Why must she wear it? (Think back to #7 Chapter 1)
9. At what ages do children begin to engage in sexual games and erotic play?
10. Mustapha Mond mentions the Nine Years’ War. List some of the unpleasant details he shares in the
surrounding pages.
*Bonus: A. Name three World State games. B. Do some math & figure what year it would be if this society
had stayed with our calendar. C. What is soma?
BNW Chapter 4 Day 4
1. What does Lenina think, in general, about all the men she has “had”?
2. How does Lenina act towards Bernard?
3. Why is Bernard embarrassed by Lenina’s conversation?
4. What is the job of the little Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron in Chapter 4?
5. When Benito sees that Bernard is in a bad temper, what does he offer Bernard?
6. What does Lenina say during the flight with Henry that demonstrates she is a true product of
conditioning? You can quote her; she says several phrases.
7. Why does Bernard treat the lower castes roughly and rudely?
8. What caste is Helmholtz Watson? List his many jobs.
9. Why, do you think, are Helmholtz and Bernard friends? What do they seem to have in common?
10. Why, do you think, did Aldous Huxley split Chapter 4 into Parts 1 and 2?
