Brave New World: Chapters 9-11 Questions & Answers

Posted on Apr 4, 2025 in English

Chapter 9 Analysis

Questions

  1. How does Lenina handle the disgust of her visit to the Reservation when she returns to the guest house?
  2. Does Bernard sleep? Why?
  3. Whom does Bernard call from Santa Fe? Why?
  4. What does Mond do when he receives Bernard’s call?
  5. Why does Bernard treat the Warden the way he does?
  6. How does John feel when he comes to the rest house?
  7. Why does John break the window?
  8. How does John handle Lenina’s clothes and makeup?
  9. Does John touch the sleeping Lenina? Why?
  10. What causes John to leave?

Answers

  1. Lenina takes enough soma to sleep for 18 hours.
  2. Bernard lies awake planning John’s trip.
  3. Bernard calls Mustapha Mond directly to get permission for John and Linda to come to London.
  4. Mond immediately sends permission for Bernard to take John and Linda off the Reservation.
  5. Bernard feels very self-satisfied with his call to Mond and he has to flaunt his importance.
  6. John thinks that he has been deserted and Bernard will not take him to London. He sits and cries.
  7. John sees Lenina’s green suitcase and he must get in the room to touch something that is hers.
  8. John handles Lenina’s things as if he were touching the relics of a saint.
  9. John kneels at Lenina’s bed but feels he is unworthy to touch her.
  10. John hears Bernard’s plane and runs out to greet him.

Chapter 10 Analysis

Questions

  1. To what does the Director compare the Bloomsbury Centre?
  2. Why does the Director choose the Fertilizing Room to meet Bernard?
  3. Why is it important that high-caste workers are witnesses?
  4. How does Bernard begin the meeting?
  5. Of what does the Director accuse Bernard?
  6. What is to be Bernard’s punishment?
  7. How does Linda try to act toward the Director?
  8. What is the reaction in the room to Linda’s revelation?
  9. What is the reaction to John’s calling the Director his father?
  10. How does the Director leave?

Answers

  1. The Director calls the Centre a hive of industry.
  2. The Director plans to make a public example of Bernard in front of high-caste workers.
  3. High-caste workers are the most intelligent and the most capable of rebellious thoughts. This will be a lesson for them.
  4. Bernard is self-important and self-confident, but nervous. He speaks too loudly at first.
  5. Bernard is accused of heretical views on sport and soma, having an unorthodox sex life, and refusing to obey Our Ford.
  6. Bernard will be dismissed from his post and sent to the lowest Sub-Centre on Iceland.
  7. Linda tries to be the sexy, seductive woman she once was, but is actually a parody of what she once was.
  8. An uncomfortable, embarrassed hush falls over the room.
  9. Everyone in the room breaks into hysterical laughter.
  10. The Director covers his ears in humiliation and runs from the room.

Chapter 11 Analysis

Questions

  1. Why does everyone want to meet John?
  2. What is Linda’s existence now? What will eventually happen to her?
  3. How does Bernard make himself more self-important?
  4. How does society label John?
  5. What effect does the visit to the Electrical Equipment Corporation have on John?
  6. What does Bernard do during the visit to Eton?
  7. What are the only books in Eton’s library? Why?
  8. Why does Bernard want Lenina to take the Savage to the feelies?
  9. What is the Savage’s reaction to the feely?
  10. Why is Lenina disappointed at the end of the chapter?

Answers

  1. John is a real Savage, new and unusual like a new animal in a zoo.
  2. Linda is in a constant soma holiday. Dr. Shaw says that such heavy intake will kill her in about a month or two.
  3. Bernard sets himself up as guardian and agent for John. Everyone who wants to meet John has to go through Bernard.
  4. Society labels John the Savage.
  5. John is horrified by the Bokanovsky twins working there, calling them maggots.
  6. Bernard continues to act as John’s agent, boasting about his connection to the Savage.
  7. Only reference books are available, as reading anything complex or old is discouraged.
  8. Bernard hopes the feely experience might encourage John to be more intimate with Lenina.
  9. The Savage is disgusted by the sensuality and lack of meaning in the feely, calling it ignoble.
  10. Lenina expects John to want to sleep with her after the feely, but he rejects her and goes to his room alone.