Brave New World Test. On your scantron, mark the letter of the best answer.
1. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
(A) The Podansky Process
(B) The Trotsky Process
(C) The Bokanovsky Process
(D) Centrifugal Bumble-puppy
2. The term for birth in the Hatchery is
(A) Social predestination
(B) Uncorking
(C) Hatching
(D) Decanting
3. 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 books and flowers are worthless
(C) By spanking the children when they approach books or flowers
(D) By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
4. Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous?
(A) Because she thinks Lenina is lonely
(B) Because “every one belongs to every one else”
(C) Because she thinks Henry Foster is treating Lenina poorly
(D) Because she thinks Bernard Marx is attractive
5. How does the Solidarity Service end?
(A) With an orgy
(B) With singing and large doses of soma
(C) With a sermon from the Community Songster
(D) With a series of hypnopaedic lessons
6. What is one aim of the state in Brave New World?
(A) Frustration
(B) Ease
(C) Stability
(D) Intelligence
7. How is promiscuity regarded in Brave New World?
(A) It is dirty and meant only for Epsilons.
(B) It is encouraged by the state.
(C) There is no such thing.
(D) It is against the law.
8. What is totalitarianism?
(A) Control of people over each other
(B) A form of government in which there is no leader
(C) Pure anarchy
(D) Absolute control by the state
9. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
(A) New Mexico
(B) Nevada
(C) Texas
(D) Arizona
10. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
(A) She is horrified
(B) She is fascinated
(C) She is sympathetic
(D) She ignores it
11. Which one of the following World State sayings has to do with soma?
(A) “Everyone is happy now”
(B) “Progress is lovely”
(C) “A gramme is better than a damn”
(D) “Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to- day”
12. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
(A) Because she slept with their husbands
(B) Because she did not speak their language
(C) Because she was from the Other Place
(D) Because she insulted them
13. What was the first book that John read as a child?
(A) Milton's Paradise Lost
(B) The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
(C) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(D) Orwell's 1984
14. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
(A) He criticized the World State
(B) He wrote poetry
(C) He visited a Savage Reservation
(D) He conducted scientific experiments
15. Mustapha Mond says that “You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .”
(A) “plenty of pleasant vices.”
(B) “stability and happiness.”
(C) “soma.”
(D) “pre-natal conditioning.”
16. After retreating to the lighthouse, what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
(A) He cries for his mother
(B) He calls Lenina's name
(C) He whips himself
(D) He plants a garden
17. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
(A) Linda's death
(B) His unrequited love for Lenina
(C) His disillusionment with the “brave new world”
(D) His participation in a soma-driven orgy
18. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and
(A) Soma
(B) Stability and strength
(C) Machinery and medicine and happiness
(D) Technology and progress
19. Which one of the following is not one of the popular teachings of the World State?
(A) Mending is better than lending.
(B) Cleanliness is next to Fordliness.
(C) A gramme is better than a damn.
(D) Everybody belongs to everyone else.
20. Bernard Marx is frustrated because ...
(A) Lenina refuses to go to the Reservation with him.
(B) he does not fit into the society he lives in.
(C) he refuses to take soma.
(D) All of the above.
21. Lenina is unusual in her society because ...
(A) She keeps seeing the same man for a long time.
(B) She decides to have a baby.
(C) She was born in the Reservation.
(D) She is an Epsilon without a twin.
22. Before leaving for the Reservation,
(A) Lenina finds out that she would be sent to exile.
(B) Bernard finds out that he would be sent to exile.
(C) Mustapha Mond tells Bernard about his visit to the Reservation.
(D) All of the above.
23. What are 'feelies'?
(A) A social dinner gathering
(B) A type of mind altering medicine
(C) A popular form of entertainment
(D) None of the above
24. Bernard's problems stem from the fact that ...
(A) his mental capabilities are not what they should be.
(B) he spent his childhood in the Reservation.
(C) he is physically inferior.
(D) All of the above.
25. Which one of these characters has access to forbidden literature?
(A) Mustapha Mond, the World Controller
(B) The Director
(C) Lenina Crowne
(D) Helmholtz Watson, the lecturer
26. At the end of the book,
(A) John leaves the World State to live in the Reservation.
(B) The Director offers John a job.
(C) John adapts to the life in the World State.
(D) None of the above.
27. What does Bernard find so disturbing about Morgana Rothschild?
(A) her fingernails
(B) her eyebrow
(C) her hair
(D) the way she chants orgy-porgy
28. Who is the antagonist in Brave New World's World State?
(A) Mustapha Mond
(B) John the Savage
(C) Fanny Crowne
(D) Helmholtz Watson
29. What does soma do to people?
(A) makes them want to chew gum
(B) makes them pneumatic
(C) makes them stable
(D) makes them sing orgy-porgy
30. What or who is the people's famous 'god'?
(A) Ford
(B) Jesus
(C) a dog
(D) soma
31. Where is the Reservation located?
(A) Iceland
(B) New Mexico
(C) Greenland
(D) New Zealand
32. Where does John the Savage go to live by himself?
(A) Iceland
(B) a crofters cottage
(C) Greenland
(D) a lighthouse
33. What phrase best describes the protagonists' biggest hope?
(A) to marry Lenina
(B) freedom from oppression
(C) to not have to take soma
(D) to live in Iceland
34. What phrase best describes dystopia?
(A) a state where there is no propaganda
(B) a state where individuality is encouraged
(C) a state in which people are treated to due process
(D) a state that is depriving and oppressive to individuals
35. John believes that people in the World State have made some sacrifices for their kind of happiness. Among these are science and
(A) technology
(B) art
(C) health
(D) security
36. The purpose of death conditioning is to create an attitude of ____________ when people die
(A) sympathy
(B) sorrow
(C) unconcern
(D) joy
37. Bernard is deported because of his desire for
(A) individuality
(B) Lenina
(C) soma
(D) the Contgroller's job
38. The Malpais reservation where John and Linda lived was located in
(A) Arizona
(B) New Mexico
(C) Mexico
(D) Texas
39. Most of the women of the World State were sterile and were known as
(A) freemartins
(B) free spirits
(C) free agents
(D) free lovers
40. John caused a riot when he tried to do away with
(A) hypnopaedia
(B) the feelies
(C) decanting
(D) soma
41. Why was Huxley not granted U.S. citizenship?
(A) He thought it wrong to pay taxes.
(B) He was a Communist and was black listed.
(C) He refused to fight in World War II.
(D) He could not memorize the National Anthem.
42. What is The Doors of Perception?
(A) An entrance into a heavenly place.
(B) A philosophical digression about LSD.
(C) A song by Jim Morrison about Aldous Huxley
(D) A book by Aldous Huxley about experiences with mescaline.
43. What is significant about the day Huxley died?
(A) He died on his birthday, at the same time of his birth.
(B) He died on the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
(C) He died on the day Martin Luther gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
(D) He died on the same day Timothy O’Leary died.
Match the person on the left with his description on the right.
44. Thomas More
45. George Orwell
46. Sigmund Freud
47. Henry Ford
48. Jonathan Swift
(A) Wrote Gulliver’s Travels
(B) Psychologist
(C) Wrote Utopia
(D) Wrote 1984
(E) Known for the assembly line
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