Study Questions on Brave New World

Study Questions
Chapters 1-3

Chapter 1
1. Describe the setting for the opening

chapter of Brave New World. In what city and year does this novel take place?

Chapter 1
1. Describe the setting for the opening

chapter of Brave New World. In what city and year does this novel take place?
It is inside the Central London Hatchery and

Conditioning Center. The atmosphere is stark and clinical. A.F. 632

Chapter 1
2. What is the motto of the World State?

Chapter 1
2. What is the motto of the World State?
Community, Identity, Stability

Chapter 1
3. Explain what is happening at the Hatchery

and Conditioning Center.

Chapter 1
3. Explain what is happening at the Hatchery

and Conditioning Center.
The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is

conducting new students through the Center.
They are learning about artificial reproduction and the hatching of the eggs.

Chapter 1
4. Describe Bokanovsky’s process.

Chapter 1
4. Describe Bokanovsky’s process.
One egg is made to “bud,” resulting in as

many as 96 identical embryos.

Chapter 1
5. What are the five castes of the World

State?

Chapter 1
5. What are the five castes of the World

State?
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon

Chapter 2
1. What two objects are the babies being

conditioned to dislike?

Chapter 2
1. What two objects are the babies being

conditioned to dislike?
They are books and flowers.

Chapter 2
2. Why does the State condition the masses

to dislike the country?

Chapter 2
2. Why does the State condition the masses

to dislike the country?
They do not consume any goods if they

simply enjoy natural pleasures in the country.

Chapter 2
3. Explain how hypnopaedia works.

Chapter 2
3. Explain how hypnopaedia works.
Children are taught State-prescribed moral

and social principles through sleep-teaching, three times a week for 30 months.

Chapter 2
4. What does the child’s mind and, later, the

adult’s become?

Chapter 2
4. What does the child’s mind and,