Malthusian belts and decanting are common. This Brave New World Vocabulary Quiz is to see how well you know the specific words used in the World State.
Brave New World Vocabulary Quiz Questions
- What does “Orgy-Porgy” refer to?
- What is the “Park Lane Hospital for the Dying”?
- What does “feelies” technology emphasize?
- What does “predestination” mean in the context of the Hatchery?
- What is a “Delta” in the World State?
- What is meant by “conditioning centres”?
- What is the purpose of a “soma holiday”?
- What does “Community Sing” mean?
- What does “Viviparous” mean in the novel’s context?
- What is “Surrogate” used to describe?
- What does “Malpais” refer to?
- What does “Bernard Marx” represent symbolically?
- What is “Soma Distribution Day”?
- What does the word “Helmholtz” symbolize in the novel?
- What does “soma” refer to in the novel?
- What does “hypnopaedia” mean?
- What is the meaning of “Bokanovsky’s Process”?
- What does “decanting” describe?
- What is the “World State”?
- What is “conditioning” in the context of the novel?
- What does “Ford” symbolize in the World State?
- What is a “Feelies”?
- What does the word “pneumatic” mean when used to describe Lenina?
- What does the word “Epsilon” refer to?
- What is the “Solidarity Service”?
- What is “Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning”?
- What does “Alpha” signify in the novel?
- What does “Beta” represent in the caste system?
- What is a “freemartin”?
- What is “Centrifugal Bumble-puppy”?