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Brave New World Questions: Pack Two
Chapter 4:
1. Of what class is the elevator operator? Describe him.
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2. How is Bernard different from other Alphas? What is rumored to have caused his
differences?
3. Why do Bernard and Helmholtz Watson feel out of place?
4. What thoughts have been recently plaguing Helmholtz?
Chapter 5:
1. What is the crematorium and for what is it used? What is the point of this process?
2. Why is Lenina able to remember her birth control precautions despite the fact that she
took too much soma?
3. What are the solidarity services like? What is their point? How does Bernard fit?
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Chapter 6:
1. What does Bernard want to do on his date with Lenina that she finds odd?
2. What does Bernard say about freedom? What does he mean?
3. What did Bernard regret doing on his first date with Lenina?
4. What happened to the D.H.C. and his Beta-Minus date when he visited the New Mexico
Reservation twenty-five years ago?
5. What does the D.H.C. unintentionally reveal about himself by telling Bernard this story?
6. To where does the D.H.C. warn Bernard he will send him if he continues his current
behavior?
7. Describe the reservation.
Chapter 7:
1. What idols emerge from the ground during the ceremony seen by Bernard and Lenina?
2. How is John Savage different from the others? What does he want in regards to the
ceremony? How does he respond to Lenina?
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