BRAVE NEW WORLD Reading Questions:
5 Comprehension Quizzes

Brave New World reading questions organized into five quizzes that align to a standard high school reading schedule. Each quiz covers one reading section and contains 10 multiple choice questions. Use them as comprehension checks, low-stakes assessments, or review warm-ups. Support developing readers by sharing the questions prior to the assigned reading.

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Brave New World Reading Questions: Chapters 1–3

Quiz 1 — Comprehension Questions: Chapters 1–3

1. At the beginning of the novel, the Director is touring the factory to…
A. Assess and grade all the workers.
B. Teach a group of students.
C. Pick out specimens for an experiment.
D. Decide if the factory should close.

2. Which choice is NOT a goal of the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?
A. Making large batches of identical twins
B. Encouraging sexual play
C. Giving babies electrical shocks
D. Producing perfectly equal citizens

3. The Director and Mr. Foster talk about their shared desire to…
A. Speed up the factory process.
B. Make everyone exactly equal.
C. Trade jobs.
D. Have sex with Bethany.

4. Why are the children conditioned to like nature?
A. Spending time in nature is free.
B. They will be outside a lot in the army.
C. The government needs more people to sleep outside.
D. Trick question! They are conditioned to dislike nature.

5. How do they teach the children morality?
A. A pain implant punishes them.
B. Government approved movies present proper role models.
C. The children are brainwashed while they sleep.
D. Trick question! Morality is no longer a concern.

6. Which historical figure do the people of the society worship?
A. Zaphod Beeblebrox
B. Mazer Rackham
C. Benito Mussolini
D. Henry Ford

7. The Controller gives a lecture explaining the horrors of…
A. Family life.
B. Working in the baby factory.
C. Being smarter than everyone else.
D. Knowing what will happen before it happens.

8. Fanny gives Lenina a hard time for…
A. Dating too many guys.
B. Dating the same guy for too long.
C. Working too hard at the factory.
D. Not working hard enough.

9. Which character rejects some of the norms (expectations) of the society?
A. Bernard Marx
B. Mr. Foster
C. Fanny
D. Mustapha Mond, the Controller

10. What are the lowest members of the society called?
A. 4-Fs
B. Untouchables
C. Epsilons
D. Trick question! All are equal.

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Brave New World Reading Questions: Chapters 4–6

Quiz 2 — Comprehension Questions: Chapters 4–6

1. When Bernard looks upset, Benito suggests that he…
A. Spend time in Adelpha (a forest).
B. Take soma (a drug).
C. Volunteer for klen-sing (torture).
D. Go to a Solidarity Service.

2. Bernard is insecure about…
A. Being small.
B. His facial features.
C. A speech impediment.
D. His level of intelligence.

3. What is the nature of Helmholtz Watson’s problem?
A. He is unintelligent for a Gamma.
B. He is rejected by the only woman that he desires.
C. He wants to do more with his life.
D. He struggles to succeed at his job.

4. In what way are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson alike?
A. They are both seen as unattractive.
B. They feel like they do not fit in.
C. They have the same occupation at the baby factory.
D. They are both Gammas.

5. What distraction troubles Bernard during the Solidarity Service?
A. A woman’s eyebrows
B. A man’s sweaty ears
C. A song that gives him flashbacks
D. The clicking of a wobbly table leg

6. What is Bernard’s field of expertise?
A. Mechanical engineering
B. Psychology
C. Music (composition)
D. Historical research

7. The Director is embarrassed when Bernard witnesses him…
A. Messing up an important task.
B. Getting emotional.
C. Being romantic with a Delta.
D. Stealing from the company.

8. How does Bernard feel after correcting and scolding his boss?
A. Scared
B. Powerful
C. Guilty
D. Trick question! The Director scolds Bernard.

9. Why does Lenina decide to go on vacation with Bernard?
A. She shares his views and wants to escape with him.
B. She really wants to go on the trip.
C. She does not know that he is different.
D. She thinks that she can “save him from himself.”

10. Why are people sent to live on the Savage Reservation?
A. It is a test.
B. They have been born illegally.
C. They have violated the societal rules.
D. Trick question! They are born there.

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Brave New World Reading Questions: Chapters 7–10

Quiz 3 — Comprehension Questions: Chapters 7–10

1. How does Lenina react to life on the reservation?
A. She hates it and never wants to go back.
B. She likes it at first and later hates it.
C. She hates it but then learns to appreciate it.
D. She wants to stay for good.

2. John is angry with the people of the reservation when he is not chosen to…
A. Become a master builder.
B. Give a blood sacrifice.
C. Join the Council of Jaguars (warriors).
D. Become a father.

3. Who is John’s biological father?
A. Bernard Marx
B. The Director
C. Adolphus Xincotencatl
D. Trick question! He was genetically engineered.

4. How did John come to live on the reservation?
A. He was left there as part of an experiment.
B. He escaped “civilization” to live there.
C. He was born there.
D. A helicopter crash strands him there.

5. Why is Linda a social outcast within the reservation?
A. She refuses to learn the language.
B. She refuses to do any work.
C. She sleeps with many men of the community.
D. Trick question! She is fully accepted.

6. If Linda had her choice, she would…
A. Stay on the reservation.
B. Return to “civilization.”
C. Go into the wild and live alone.
D. End her life.

7. Which is NOT an event from the flashback of John’s memories?
A. His mother abusing alcohol
B. Being left on the reservation
C. Being excluded from traditions
D. Learning to make pottery

8. How do Linda and John come to leave the reservation?
A. Bernard smuggles them out illegally.
B. They escape by stealing documents.
C. The leader of the “savages” demands that they leave.
D. Bernard gets permission to take them back.

9. What is one of John’s unusual habits?
A. He offers his food to the spirits.
B. He speaks in quotes from Shakespeare.
C. He takes his clothes off and gives them to people.
D. He does extraordinary exercises when he is bored.

10. The Director’s plan to fire Bernard fails when…
A. He realizes that Bernard cannot be replaced.
B. Bernard gets promoted to Regent.
C. Bernard humiliates the Director in public.
D. Bernard cheats and wins the bet.

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Brave New World Reading Questions: Chapters 11–14

Quiz 4 — Comprehension Questions: Chapters 11–14

1. How do the people of London react to John and Linda?
A. Only Linda is popular.
B. Only John is popular.
C. Linda and John are both popular.
D. Linda and John are both unpopular.

2. What is the most attractive aspect of “civilization” for Linda?
A. Soma (drugs)
B. Promiscuity (sex with many people)
C. A sense of belonging and unity
D. Aromatherapy

3. Which choice reflects a change caused by John’s arrival?
A. People are starting to question the government.
B. People are turning away from soma.
C. Bernard becomes popular.
D. Bonaparte and others decide that they will become “savage.”

4. John loves the feelies because…
A. They are more intense than real life.
B. They put women in a romantic mood.
C. They help him understand his new life in “civilization.”
D. Trick question! He does not like them.

5. A fancy party is ruined when…
A. Linda goes berserk (out of control) and abuses the guests.
B. John refuses to show up.
C. Mustapha Mond orders the guests to leave.
D. Helmholtz’s comments make everyone depressed.

6. Helmholtz gets into trouble when he…
A. Teaches his students an immoral lesson.
B. Starts skipping work.
C. Refuses to sleep with one of his superiors.
D. Places an unusual advertisement in the newspaper.

7. John and Helmholtz spend time together discussing…
A. The best way to overthrow the government.
B. How they can help Bernard.
C. Religion, God, and fate.
D. The works of William Shakespeare.

8. How does Helmholtz respond when Bernard wants to be friends again?
A. He tells him to get lost.
B. He welcomes him back.
C. He agrees on the condition that John is excluded.
D. Trick question! Bernard does not want to be friends again.

9. John threatens to kill Lenina when she…
A. Tries to befriend his mother.
B. Is cruel to his mother.
C. Tries to sleep with him.
D. Sleeps with another man.

10. Which statement regarding Linda’s death is NOT true?
A. The authorities allow John to see her.
B. She is surrounded by children.
C. She dies of drug abuse.
D. She records her final words.

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Brave New World Reading Questions: Chapters 15–18

Quiz 5 — Comprehension Questions: Chapters 15–18

1. John Savage starts a riot when…
A. They try to incinerate (burn up) his mother’s body.
B. A group of workers line up to receive soma.
C. He attends a Solidarity Service.
D. He assaults Mustapha Mond.

2. How do Bernard and Helmholtz respond when John is attacked by the crowd?
A. They both fight with John.
B. Only Helmholtz fights with John.
C. Only Bernard fights with John.
D. Neither of them tries to help him.

3. How do the authorities handle the riot?
A. They use drugs to calm everyone down.
B. They decide to let the disturbance “run its course.”
C. They start beating and killing people.
D. Trick question! They cannot decide how to deal with it.

4. Mustapha Mond tortures Bernard, Helmholtz, and John by using…
A. Dripping water.
B. Electricity.
C. Injections.
D. Trick question! He does not torture them.

5. To whom does Mustapha Mond explain the development of the society?
A. Helmholtz
B. Bernard
C. John Savage
D. Controller Columbo

6. Mustapha Mond gives Helmholtz Watson a choice between…
A. Life in civilization or on the reservation.
B. Electrocution or drowning.
C. A cold island or a warm island.
D. Torturing or being tortured.

7. John stays in England because…
A. He chooses to stay.
B. Mustapha Mond wants to continue the experiment.
C. The leader of the reservation refuses him.
D. Trick question! He does not stay in England.

8. John Savage becomes famous all over again when…
A. The World State encourages people to learn from him.
B. He kills Mustapha Mond.
C. He delivers a powerful speech about God and truth.
D. He is the subject of a feely movie.

9. What do the visitors to the lighthouse want of John Savage?
A. They want to be his disciples and follow his ways.
B. They want to watch him whip himself.
C. They want to have sex with him.
D. They want him to return to the reservation.

10. How does John Savage die?
A. He hangs himself.
B. He dies of old age.
C. A crowd beats him to death.
D. Mustapha Mond has him electrocuted.

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Teaching Brave New World with Reading Checks

These Brave New World reading questions give you a low-prep accountability tool for every stage of the novel. Students who know a quiz is coming read more carefully. Students who have already taken the quiz arrive at discussion with the plot fresh. Both outcomes are worth a ten-question multiple choice check. The schedule of the reading quizzes aligns to the reading schedule of the TeachNovels Brave New World Literature Unit.

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