Brave New World unit questions – Flashcards
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What is the World State's motto?
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Community, Identity, Stability
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What does D.H.C stand for?
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Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
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What is the Podsnap's Technique?
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Accelerated Process of ripening eggs
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Why are some embryos labeled "freemartin"?
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Some embryos are deliberately made sterile
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What is the Bokanosky Process?
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Process of eggs dividing or budding multiple times
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Why ere the Delta babies electrified and alarmed when they were playing with flowers and Books?
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To instill instinctive fear of flowers and books for the rest of their lives.
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What is the significance of instilling fear of flowers to the babies?
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flowers represent love of nature; therefore, they didn't want Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons to love nature
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What is the defect of having love of nature
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Having love of nature means no factories and the people become gratuitous.
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What was the outcome of Reuben sleeping with the radio turned on?
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The discovery of Sleep Teaching (hypnopaedia)
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Who is Mustapha Mond?
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He is the Resident Controller of Western Europe
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According the Fanny, What was the cause of Bernard Marx being so stunted?
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People in the laboratory thought Bernard was a Gamma; therefore, inserted alcohol into his bloodstream.
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Who is Bernard Marx?
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He is an Alpha Plus, who specializes in Hypnopaedia
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Where is Bernard Marx taking Lenina Crowne?
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The Savage Reservation
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Why does Bernard hate making contact with members of the lower class?
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it reminds him of his physical inadequacy
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According to Bernard, what is his social status among his own class?
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an outsider
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What was troubling Helmhotz?
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that he has some special power inside him waiting to come out.
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What is one condition that all the classes have?
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Being proud of their class
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What was symbolic of the musical performance Henry and Lenina saw?
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the music symbolically represented intercourse
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What game do Henry and Lennina play?
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Obstacle Golf
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What was the result of taking somas at the meeting?
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People having an orgy-porgy
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What are collected from the crematoriums?
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Phosphorous
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What caused Bernard to have sex with Lenina?
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soma
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Because of what behavior does the Director threaten to exile Bernard?
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Bernard is too antisocial
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Where does the Director exile Bernard?
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Iceland
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What was the purpose of Bernard visiting the Director?
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To get his permission to go to the reservation in New Mexico
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Who is Linda's lover?
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Popé
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Why does Bernard want to bring John back to London?
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To show the Director his child
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What question did John ask Bernard that Bernard find it funny?
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If Bernard was married to Lenina
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What drink did Popé bring for Linda?
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mescal
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Why did three women beat up Linda?
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Because Linda has slept with their men
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John quotes passages from what while starring at Lenina?
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Romeo and Juliet
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Who does Bernard call to get permission to bring both John and Linda back to the World State?
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Mustapha Mond
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What made John become ashamed of himself?
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Having the thought of touching Lenina while she slept.
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As his defense against the director, what does Bernard reveal?
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He presents Linda and John
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At the moment John saw the Director, what does he say?
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My father!
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According to the Director, Bernard was a threat to what?
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the stability of society
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What is the negative result of taking excess amount of soma?
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shortening a person's life
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What is the positive result of taking excess amount of soma?
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life seems like eternity to a person
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What is the cause for Bernard's sudden popularity?
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John the savage
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With whom does Lenina grows affection for?
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John
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What caused Bernard's popularity to plummet?
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John wouldn't come out of his room
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What does John read Helmholtz and Bernard?
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Romeo and Juliet
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Why does John go to his room in sadness after he read "Romeo and Juliet" to Helmholtz?
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Helmholtz laughed
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Who leaves Bernard's party because John isn't there?
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Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury
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What does Lenina attempt to do with John but fails?
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sex (rape him)
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What does John quote to show his love to Lenina?
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Shakespeare
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What does John call Lenina?
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A *****
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What does John wants to do with Lenina that she finds horrific?
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grow old with her
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Why does John go to the hospital?
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to see his dying mother
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What did the boys say when they see Linda that offended John?
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fat and ugly
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What was the purpose of the nurse bringing children to Linda's death bed?
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death conditioning
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Who does Linda think John is?
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Pope
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What does John do that infuriates the two Deltas?
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throw somas out the window
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What was Bernard indecisive to do?
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to aid John and Helmholtz
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What do the policemen spray to calm down the riot?
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soma vapor and a powerful anesthetic
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who gets caught by the police by trying to escape?
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Bernard
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What is John's opinion on soma
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poison meant to enslave them
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What are two reasons why Shakespeare is banned?
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1. People want new things, not something that is old, like Shakespeare 2. People won't understand Shakespeare because they live in a world where none of Shakespeare's experiences exist
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Where do the police take them?
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Mustapha Mond's office
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Why is science forbidden?
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science is based on truth and truth jeopardizes stability
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Where is HelmHoltz exiled to?
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The Falkland Islands
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What is the discussion between mond and John about?
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religion and God
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What is soma for?
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To take the pain away if something bad happens
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According to John, what is the purpose if believing in God?
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reason for self-denial and chastity and everything noble and fine and heroic
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What is Mond's input about John's wishes?
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it will lead to unhappiness
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What does John want?
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God, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, and sin
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Why doesn't John go to the islands?
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He is part of Mond's experiment
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Where does John live?
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in an abandoned lighthouse
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Whom does he promises himself to always think of?
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Linda
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Based on his behavior or whipping himself, what kind of a person is he?
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masochist
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What happens to John in the end?
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he hangs himself
