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40 Cards in this Set
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Who is an Employee at the Hatchery
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Henry Foster
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Who is an Alpha Plus Psychologist
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Bernard Marx
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Who is an Indian that lives on the reservation
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Pope
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Who is a Nurse at Hatchery
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Lenina Crowne
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Who is the Resident Controller
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Mustapha Mond
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Who is the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
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Tomakin
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Who is a Writer of propaganda
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Helmholtz Watson
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Who is the uncivilized person brought from the reservation
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John
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Who is the Utopian girl that gives birth to a child
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Linda
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What is one of Huxley's main themes in the novel
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a warning about the power of science
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What is "Community, Identity, Stability"
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the Utopian motto
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What is Hypnopaedia?
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Sleep teaching process
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Brave New Woirld sacrifices truth and beauty for
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youth
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How do the Controllers establish the New World State?
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A campaign against the Past and destruction of all old things
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What is the name of the process of duplicating embryos?
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Bokonovsky's Process
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What does Pods Naps technique do?
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Increases the "ripening process" of embryos.
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What is the basis of the bond between Bernard and Helmholtz?
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They both think and feel as individuals
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What is a Solidarity Service?
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A religious service
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What is the name of the deity or God-like figure in BNW?
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Ford
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How does John react to "Civilization?"
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fear and despair
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Is there mobility betwen social classes?
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No
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Why is it difficult for Helmholtz to understand Shakespeare's work?
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It is based on emotion
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How does John react to Lenina's advances?
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disgust and violence
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What horrifies Lenina on the Reservation?
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the sight of old age, illness, filth, the family structure, discipline
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Because they do not "conform" where are Bernard and Helmholtz banished to?
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an island
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The BNW Utopia emphazises:
truth/beauty art/religion comfort/happiness |
comfort and happiness
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John believes that life in BNW is too:
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sacrilegious
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Do the Indians accept Linda and John?
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No, they treat her like a threat and beneath them
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When John is tired of being manipulated, where does he go?
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to a lighthouse
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How does John drive his desire for Lenina out of his mind?
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by whipping himself
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What is the Utopian attitude toward death?
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They are not afraid of it, they have been conditioned to accept it.
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What happens to John in the novel's last scene?
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he commits suicide
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What helps Helmholtz write?
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Bad weather
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What are Bokanovsky Groups?
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the foundation of social stability
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Do Epsilons provide skilled labor?
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No, they are the lowest class of people and not conditioned to do so.
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Who want's goodness, freedom, God, danger and literature?
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John
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Who wants to be able to do things alone?
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Bernard
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Who feels he has the power to say something important, but has nothing important to say?
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Helmholtz
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Who voices concern about the kind of government needed to control science?
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Aldous Huxley
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Who considers stability the most important need of human kind?
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The Controller
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