Brave New World Study Guide

Planetary motto of Brave New World

Community, Identity, Stability

Where the fetuses receive chemical treatments that determine their social class

The Social Predestination Room

How do Bernard and Lenina travel to the Savage Reservation

Blue Rocket

Which character is disgraced after learning they have a “natural child?'‘

Tommykins - the DHC

Why is Linda an outcast at the Savage Reservation?

She is promiscuous, gaming against the religious laws

Which character tires to help John during the Soma Riots?

Helmholtz

Brave New World expresses common concerns of the 20th century EXCEPT

The relationship of man to the universe

Lenina is primarily describes as “pneumatic” because

She is full of air in both the physical and mental senses

Despite their best efforts, the people of Brave New World are not completely happy as illustrated by

Their need for Soma

What social class does Helmholz Watson belong to?

Alpha

Bernard is thought to be “different” because he is

Smaller than the other Alphas

What games are the children on the playground playing

Adult

According to Mond, what is the primal and ultimate need for humanity?

Stability

What was the Cyprus Experiment

Alphas were placed on an island but no one wanted to work

How does Bernard conform to the Brave New World society after John comes to stay with him?

He takes Soma, has women, and goes to many social functions.

The doctor tells John that Linda should go on an extended (and fatal) Soma holiday except for what reason

She is over 60 and should be fertilizer by now

What things are John surprised about Mustapha Mond?

He believes in God, has read Shakesepare, was almost exiled for unorthodox thoughts.

When Bernard, John, and Helholtz meet to say goodbye, there are happy to be sad. This means what?

They are glad they are feel their emotions now.

Helmholtz is given a choice of locations for his exile and chooses

Falkland Islands because it has harsher, more challenging conditions.

John ends his life after

Losing control and giving into his lust

The repetitions of approved propaganda while the person is asleep

Hypnopedia

Scientific was to force fertilized eggs to split into many twins

Bokanovsky’s Process

The way Brave New World refers to natural child bearing

Viviparous

A teaching method that creates an adersion or attraction by reward or punishment

Neo-Pavolvian

Meaning full of air, physically, emotionally, and mentally

Pneumatic

Mustapha Mond believes that art, religion, and science are a threat to stability. True or false?

True

Fanny is undergoing a pregnancy surrogate treatment so she can have babies. True or False

False

Bernard jumps in immediately to help John during the riot. True or false?

False

John is whipping himself to purify him from desire and sin. True or false?

True

Linda dies naturally of old age in the hospital. True or false?

False

The Solidarity Service is a satire of a Christian Communion Service. True or False?

True

In the poem “Unknown Citizen” the qutor uses dramatic irony

When the speaker says “the question is absurd” but the pote means the question of being free or happy is all that matters.

Who is most likely speaker of the poem “Unknown Citizen?”

A government official

In the poem “Barbie Doll” situational irony is used to show

The only time society feels she looks pretty is when she is dead

In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the poet uses verbal irony

In the title, which translates to “it is sweet and proper to die for your country” contrasted with a description of a horrible mustard gas attack.

A purpose of the title “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and a method used to achieve the purpose

To criticize propaganda that romanticized the war and a graphic report of a gas attack.

In the poem “All Wached Over My Machines of Loving Grace” the poet’s view of a technology dominated future is one in which

People are free from hard work to pursue their passion

The narrator of “Once Upon A Time” is

A family member

“Once Upon A Time” is a commentary on

The inevitable terrible endings of fairy tales

Dylan Thomas illustrates his point about death in the Poem “Do Not Go Gentile into that Good Night” by showing how each of the following struggles against death EXCEPT

Honest Men

The poem “The Hollow Men” reveals that modern man is both “hollow” and “stuffed.” What is the paradox here?

Modern man’s lack of spirituals depth and excessive concerns with unimportant elements.

The poem “The Hollow Men'“ uses frequent allusions to responsive prayers and nursery rhymes such as a "here we go round the prickly pear” and “For thine is…” to show the poet’s view that

Modern religious practice is merely memorialized ritual