1) What is strange about "Bye Baby Banting Soon You'll Need Decanting"? What is the allusion? (126)
2) Why does Linda hit John? What does she blame him for? Is this right? Is it understandable why she resents him?
3) What is your opinion of Pope? Why? Anything ironic about his name?
4) How did Linda teach John to read? What becomes John's bible? Is there anything ironic about this?
5) "Nay, but to live/ in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/ stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love/ over the nasty sty". What is significant about this quote? (131)
6) Why does John try to kill Pope? What is Pope's reaction? How does Shakespeare influence these thought?
7) "He had discovered Time and Death and God" (136). What is significant about this quote?
8) How are John and Bernard alike?
9) "I did something that none of the others did. I stood against a rock in the middle of the day, in summer, with my arms out, like Jesus on the Cross." "What on earth for?" "I wanted to know what it was like being crucified." (137). What is significant about this quote?
10) At the end of chapter 8 the title of the book appears in a quote from the Tempest. This quote will be used throughout the book, but its meaning will change with each use. What is the meaning of the quote here? (137)
11) List the allusions to Romeo and Juliet in chapter 9. What ideas do they reinforce?
12) Why is the Social Predestination Room compared with a Hive in chapter 10?
13) How does Bernard turn the "Public example" on Tomakin?
14) Is there meaning (perhaps irony and an allusion) in John falling on his knees and saying (loudly) "My Father"? (151)
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