| Which rooms do the students visit first in this chapter? | Infant Nurseries; Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning |
| What do Deltas wear? | Khaki |
| What happens as the children crawl toward the pretty flowers and the books? | The roses flamed up with excitement, and when the children reached the books, the Head Nurse turned on a very loud alarm and electrically shocked the babies. |
| How do the children react to the books and flowers when they are offered to them again? | They shrink down in horror and start screaming. |
| Why does this society want to make the lower castes afraid of books? | It would waste the community’s time if they read books and there was a risk of them reading something that might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes. |
| Why does society want to make the lower classes hate nature? | Loving nature doesn’t keep factories busy. And if they make the children scream at the sight of a rose, it is on the grounds of high economic policy. |
| Why, however, do they want the lower classes to like country sports? | Because they see to it that country sports entail the use of elaborate apparatus, so they consumed manufactured articles as well as transport. |
| What weird thing happened with the boy Reuben Rabinovitch? | His parents had happened to leave the radio on in his room one night and when he was sleeping, a long lecture played om the radio. When he woke up, he kept repeating the lecture word for word. |
| What technique this boy help discover? | Hypnopedia (sleep teaching) |
| What sign did the director make on his stomach? | The sign of a T |
| They discovered that intellectual education wasn’t possible through hypnopedia, but what kind of education is possible through hypnopedia? | Moral education |
| What were the two lessons the children had so far this afternoon? | Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness |
| Explain the class consciousness education. | There are eighty children sleeping in cots aligning the walls. Each child has a recorder under its pillow repeating a paragraph about how they are glad they are beta’s, and they point out a disadvantage they would have if they were in any other caste. For thirty months straight, three times a week, that recording is repeated to them 120 times. After the thirty months is up they move to a more advanced lesson. |
Brave New World Ch. 2 Questions
June 7, 2020