Back to the Basics
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
What are the names of the five casts.
Podsnap's Technique
A method for speeding up the ripening of mature eggs. The process makes possible the production of many identical human beings at roughly the same time.
secret, stealthy
What is surreptitious?
The place one is sent if one can not be a trusted member of the community.
What is Iceland?
Bokanovsky's Process
A.F.
What is the modern Era, meaning "After Ford"
What is thyroxin?
Books of reference.
What are the only types of books allowed in BNW's libraries, in order to avoid any solitary amusements?
A gothic church (originally a Benedictine abbey) where English monarchs are crowned; also a burial place for English monarchs, famous statesmen and writers, etc. A nightclub in Brave New World.
What is Westminster Abbey?
The U.S. automobile manufacture credited with developing interchangeable parts and the assembly line process.
Who is Henry Ford?
Freemartin
What is a sterile woman?
a mass of yellow tissue formed in the ovary by a ruptured graafian follicle that has discharged it's ovum;
What is corpus luteum?
He refuses to take soma.
Who is John the Savage?
A ceremony with soma that turns into an orgy
What is the Solidarity Service?
Bernard feels this when Lenina accepts his invitation to see the Savage Reservation.
What is embarrassed?
decanting
What is pouring from one container to another?
The growth process of embryonic tissue placed in an artificial environment, as a test tube. (The conventional process of birth in the Brave New World.)
What is ectogenisis?
Strumpet.
What is a prostitute?
The place taught to be "unworthy of civilization" where things like parenthood & individuality are embraced.
What is the Savage Reservation?
The friendship between Bernard and Helmholtz Watson is based upon this.
What is a shared discontent with the way things are.
Indoctrination taking place while asleep.
What is hypnopaedia?
The method of birthing after internal fertilization; birthing from the womb.
What is viviparous?
a substitute
What is a surrogate?
Where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predetermined classes (or castes) based on intelligence and labour.
What is the World State city of London?
This happens when the Director and Bernard discuss the Reservation.
What is, the Director threatens to exile Bernard because of his behavior?