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Round One: The workings of the World State

One
The World States motto is: C_________, I_________, S_________

Two
What is Bokanovskys Process? (a general description of what it achieves will suffice)

Three
What is the difference between how an Alpha and an Epsilon are made?

Four
What is meant by decanting?

Five
How are children conditioned to dislike books and flowers? (a specific method is mentioned for this particular act)

Six
What is the purpose of hypnopaedia?

Seven
What is a Malthusian belt?

Eight
What is a Savage Reservation?

Nine
What does A.F mean?

Ten
What is a freemartin?

Eleven
What is soma?

Twelve
What is the World States attitude towards sex?

Round Two: Characters

One
In what way is Bernard inferior to other Alphas?

Two
Why is Lenina so interested in Bernard?

Three
Lenina is frequently described as being p________ (Bonus point if you include the definition)

Four
What is Helmholtz Watsons profession?

Five & Six


Complete Johns family tree:
(5) Mother: (6) Father:

John

Seven
Why is John an outsider both on the Savage Reservation and in the World State?

Eight
John uses what book to help him understand/interpret much of what he experiences in the World State?

Nine
What does Mustapha Mond do?

Ten

What makes Mustapha Mond a paradoxical character? (a paradox, in this situation, is a person or thing exhibiting apparently contradictory characteristics)

Eleven, Twelve & Thirteen


What are the ultimate fates of the following: 11) Bernard 12) Helmholtz 13) John

Round Three: He said, she said

One
This is said about who: "straight from the horse's mouth"

Two
Who says this about the feelies: But the new ones are so stupid and horrible. Those plays, where theres nothing but helicopters flying about and you feel the people kissing. He made a grimace. Goats and monkeys!

Three
Who says this after a longed-for tryst: "[We're] infants where feeling and desire are concerned. [] That's why we went to bed together yesterday like infants instead of being adults and waiting."

Four
This describes which character: "The deep voice thrillingly vibrated; the gesticulating hand implied all space and the onrush of the irresistible machine. ________ _____'s oratory was almost up to synthetic standards."

Five
Which two characters are being described here: What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals. [] It was only quite recently that, grown aware of his mental excess, _________ ______ had also become aware of his difference from the people who surrounded him.

Six
Who said: History is bunk. (hint: we dont meet this individual in the text)

Round Four: Some stuff that happened; or, important events.

One
In what real-world city do all of the events depicted within the World State take place?

Two
What real-world location must Bernard travel to in order to have his savage encounter?

Three
Why does John take it upon himself to throw away all of Deltas soma during chapter 15?

Four
Why causes John to call Lenina an impudent strumpet?

Five
What happens during a Solidarity Service?

Six
Why does John seem to endlessly whip himself towards the end of the novel? (after he has been exiled from the World State and is living in the lighthouse)

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