Brave New World
Test Review
I. Characters
1. Arch-Community Songster
2. Assistant Predestinator
3. Fanny Crowne
4. Lenina Crowne
5. The Director (DHC)
6. Henry Foster
7. John
8. Linda
9. Bernard Marx
10. Mustapha Mond
11. Pope
12. The Warden
13. Helmholtz Watson
II. The Terms/Phrases
14. AF
15. Alphas, Betas, Gammas..
16. Community, Identity, Stability
17. Decanting
18. Freemartin
19. Bokanovsky Group
20. Feelies
21. Malthusian Belt
22. "Our Ford"
23. Pregnancy Substitute
24. Soma
III. Quotations - (Explain who is speaking and what the quote means)
25. "But that's the price we pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to
call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
26. " Ending is better than mending."
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27. "Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
28. “Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to
come out?”
29. “Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind only. The
adult’s mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions.
But all these suggestions are our suggestions!”
30. “I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world—well, what are you to answer
if you’re a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room?”
31. “God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your
choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
32) ‘It makes me feel as though… as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so
completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body.”
Part IV – Questions
33. The Solidarity Service is similar to our ___________
34. With the Solidarity Service, Huxley satirizes (list everything)
35. The words “O Brave New World” are taken from Shakespeare’s play _______________
36. The purpose of Death Conditioning is to create an attitude of _____________
37. “When the individual feels, the community reels” means
38. The main barrier to communication between Lenina and John was one of
39. In our society, Helmholtz Watson would probably be best suited for a career in ______________
40. One example of hynopaedia present today is ________________
41. The definition of a Dystopia is
42. The Indian Caste which most closely resembles the Epsilons is
43. List all the major influences on Aldous Huxley which inspired the cynicism leading to his creation of BNW.
44. Huxley’s main theme in this novel is
45. The Controllers are ultimately able to establish the World State by
46. To achieve universal happiness and stability, the Utopians
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