1. Study Questions Chapters 4-6
Brave New World
Study Questions
Chapters 4-6

2. Chapter 4
1. Where do Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowe plan to visit?

3. Chapter 4 1. Where do Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowe plan to visit?
They plan to visit the Savage Reservation in New Mexico.

4. Chapter 4
2. Explain Bernard Marx’s attitude toward the State.

5. Chapter 4 2. Explain Bernard Marx’s attitude toward the State.
Bernard expresses a desire for solitude and seems to want to oppose the teachings of the State.

6. Chapter 4
3. What is Helmholz Watson’s job?

7. Chapter 4 3. What is Helmholz Watson’s job?
His job is an emotional engineer for the State.

8. Chapter 4
4. Explain Watson’s feeling toward the State.

9. Chapter 4 4. Explain Watson’s feeling toward the State.
He dislikes his job, thinks things he writes are senseless, and feels he has ability which he cannot use.

10. Chapter 5
Compare the recreation and social activities of the lower castes with those of the upper castes.

11. Chapter 5
Compare the recreation and social activities of the lower castes with those of the upper castes.
All castes engage in group sports in the country such as Escalator Squash and Centrifugal Bumble-puppy. Upper castes travel by helicopter while lower castes use the monorail. The Solidarity Service is a social activity reserved for the upper castes. Lower castes have community sings. Only upper castes can go on holidays to places outside the World State.

12. Chapter 6
1. Over the stormy water of the English Channel, what desire does Bernard express to Lenina?

13. Chapter 6
1. Over the stormy water of the English Channel, what desire does Bernard express to Lenina?
He wants to be alone with her.

14. Chapter 6
2. List three adjectives or phrases to describe Lenina’s personality.

15. Chapter 6
2. List three adjectives or phrases to describe Lenina’s personality.
Promiscuous, happy, and well-conditioned

16. Chapter 6
3. The Director (Tomakin) tells Bernard of a visit he made to the New Mexico Indian Reservation twenty years ago. What unusual thing happened there?

17. Chapter 6
3. The Director (Tomakin) tells Bernard of a visit he made to the New Mexico Indian Reservation twenty years ago. What unusual thing happened there?
Twenty years ago he went to the same Reservation. During a storm, he became separated from the girl who went with him. She was presumed to have been killed.

18. Chapter 6
4. Bernard learns that he is going to be deported to Iceland. Why?

19. Chapter 6
4. Bernard learns that he is going to be deported to Iceland. Why?
He does not conform to the standards of his caste, such as having many different girls and using soma.

20. Chapter 6
5. Rephrase Lenina’s saying, “Was and will make me ill. I take a gramme and only am.”

21. Chapter 6
5. Rephrase Lenina’s saying, “Was and will make me ill. I take a gramme and only am.”
The past and the future are unimportant. Soma causes one to live only in and for the present.

22. Chapters 4-6
1. Who is Helmholtz Watson? What is his problem?

23. Chapters 4-6 1. Who is Helmholtz Watson? What is his problem?
A lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering, and Bernard’s friend.

24. Chapters 4-6
2. The Solidarity Service has elements of several rituals in our world. Which ones?

25. Chapter 4-6
2. The Solidarity Service has elements of several rituals in our world. Which ones?
Religious services, seances, witches’ covens, orgies

26. Chapters 4-6
3. What story does the D. H. C. tell Bernard? Was he supposed to?

27. Chapters 4-6
3. What story does the D. H. C. tell Bernard? Was he supposed to?
He tells him about his own trip to the Savage Reservation many years ago, and how he had left a female companion there.

28. Chapters 4-6
4. What distressing information does Bernard’s call to Helmholtz reveal?

29. Chapters 4-6
4. What distressing information does Bernard’s call to Helmholtz reveal?
The D. H. C. plans to send him to Iceland.