BNW STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS (short answers will suffice) CHAPTER 1 1. What is the World State’s motto? 2. Why is the Director leading the students through the Hatchery? 3. What is the year? When would this be, using our present dating system? 4. How are people classified? 5. What is the Bokanovsky Process? 6. How are the bottled embryos moved during their gestation periods? 7. What had happened when the maturation process had been shortened? 8. How does the introduction of Henry Foster give a businesslike feeling to the Hatchery procedure? 9. What does Lenina’s reaction to the Director’s familiarity show about their relationship? CHAPTER 2 1. What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned? 2. What is the conditioning mechanism used? The second? 3. Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country? 4. What words have become words”? “dirty 5. Why were early sleep-teaching experiments abandoned? 6. The Director says that wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale. What reasons does he give for this? CHAPTER 3 (pink classification of speaker sheet used instead)
BNW STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS (short answers will suffice) CHAPTER 1 1. What is the World State’s motto? 2. Why is the Director leading the students through the Hatchery? 3. What is the year? When would this be, using our present dating system? 4. How are people classified? 5. What is the Bokanovsky Process? 6. How are the bottled embryos moved during their gestation periods? 7. What had happened when the maturation process had been shortened? 8. How does the introduction of Henry Foster give a businesslike feeling to the Hatchery procedure? 9. What does Lenina’s reaction to the Director’s familiarity show about their relationship? CHAPTER 2 1. What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned? 2. What is the conditioning mechanism used? The second? 3. Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country? 4. What words have become “dirty words”? 5. Why were early sleep-teaching experiments abandoned? 6. The Director says that wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale. What reasons does he give for this? CHAPTER 3 (pink classification of speaker sheet used instead)