Figurative Language
Setting
Character Development
Plot
Tone/ Theme
100
To what does Henry Foster compare Bernard?
Henry Foster says that Bernard is a rhinoceros that has not been conditioned
100
What is the POV?
Third person omniscient
200
Who is Henry comparing a rhinoceros to? "You can't teach a rhinoceros tricks," he had explained in his brief and vigorous style. "Some men are almost rhinoceroses; they don't respond properly to conditioning."
Bernard
200
Where does Lenina take Bernard to get him out of his "detached" state of mind?
A wrestling match
200
When Bernard and Lenina meet her friends in Amsterdam, how does he behave?
Bernard sits at the ice cream bar and is upset and sulking, and he refuses to take soma or enjoy himself at all.
200
Why does Bernard go to visit the Director?
The Director's permission and a permit to go to visit the New Mexico Reservation
200
What theme is displayed when Lenina thinks about how strange Bernard is because he prefers talking in private to playing golf?
Individuality
300
Where does Bernard insist on stopping when he is in the helicopter with Lenina?
The ocean
300
How does Bernard react when he hears the Director has made good on his threat of exile?
Bernard is outraged that this happened to him, and then he begins to brainstorm ideas of how to get revenge.
300

What does Helmholtz tell Bernard about what the Director is considering? (Where might Bernard be sent to?)

To send Bernard to Iceland

300
What theme is described when Lenina repeated the hypnopeadic phrase, "Everyone is happy nowadays" while begging Bernard to take soma?
Science and technological control
400
What city did Lenina and Bernard stay the night in when traveling to New Mexico?
Santa Fé
400
What is the Director’s attitude toward Bernard’s trip to the Reservation?
The director does not really want to grant permission to Bernard for his trip, but he has to because he cannot go against Mustapha Mond’s signature.
400
Bernard hates the feeling of being enslaved whereas Lenina loves her slavery. What theme does this point to?
A totalitarian and dystopian society
500
What are Bernard’s only thoughts during the Warden’s lecture?
Bernard can only think about is calling Helmholtz Watson to have him turn off the cologne tap in Bernard’s apartment because otherwise it would be very expensive.
500

What does the Director sometimes dream about regarding his experience at the Reservation?

The Director sometimes dreams about not being able to find the girl he took to the Reservation...

500
What two characters from 1984 are similar to the characteristics of Lenina and Bernard?
Winston and Julia
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