Ch. 5
1. What are the majestic buildings of the Slough Crematorium used for?
They are used for phosphorous recovery. When people die, they get cremated so they can be socially useful by making plants grow, even after they are dead.
1. What does the Director think happened to the girl he was in New Mexico with?
He thinks she got lost when she went on a walk alone.
1. What word did Lenina use to describe the Pueblo at the beginning of the chapter.?
Queer
1. What is the alcohol called in the reservation?
Mescal
2. Who did Bernard sit next to at the Fordon Community Singery?
Morgana Rothschild and Clara Deterding.
2. What was Lenina’s other option instead of going to New Mexico with Bernard?
Go to the North Pole with Benito Hoover.
2. The top of the mesa was a flat deck of stone; what did this remind Lenina off?
The charging-t tower
2. John hated every man her mother, Linda, was with, but who did he hate the most?
Popé
3. How does Bernard describe Clara Deterding?
Too pneumatic
3. What would Bernard rather spend his afternoon doing rather then plying Electro-magnetic Golf?
Walking and talking.
3. When Lenina went to check her pockets, what had Lenina found out she had left at the rest house?
Her bottle of soma
3. What little book did Linda give John? The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers.
4. Who was the last to arrive at the Fordon Community Singery?
Sarojini Engels
4. Finish the quote from Lenina: “A gramme in time ____ ____”
4. What was happening at the center of the Pueblo.
The eighteen year old boy was getting whipped as a sacrifice until he couldn’t take it anymore.
4. What book did Popé bring for John?
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
5. What sweet treat was passed around the table of the Fordon Community Singery?
Strawberry ice cream soma.
5. How long has it been since the Director was at the New Mexico Reservation?
20-25 years
5. What is the Directors name?
Tomakin or Thomas
5. What did Bernard offer John at the end of the chapter?
He offered John to come back to London with him and Lenina.