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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How does the Solidarity Service end?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
With an orgy
Excessive soma intake
He conducted scientific experiments

2. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Community. Identity. Stability.
Bernard Marx
'Suffer the children'
Machinery and medicine and happiness

3. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
John
Excessive soma intake
She is horrified
The Falkland Islands

4. Who said the following: 'I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get - a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is - and I can't make any use of the power.'
With an orgy
The Falkland Islands
Helmholtz Watson
John

5. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.
Four months

6. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

7. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Bernard Marx
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified
His physique

8. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Encouraged
The Bokanovsky Process
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

9. What is the origin of the title Brave New World?

10. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian
To bring rain

11. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Community. Identity. Stability.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands

12. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
Because she slept with their husbands
Both feel alienated from World State society
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Excessive soma intake
The Bokanovsky Process
He writes a poem about solitude
His physique

14. Who said the following: 'I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get - a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is - and I can't make any use of the power.'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Helmholtz Watson
Because she slept with their husbands
Five

15. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A society of Alphas is unworkable

16. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Excessive soma intake
To bring rain
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

17. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Tomakin
To bring rain

18. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands
Soma

19. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His physique
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'A gramme is better than a damn'

20. What World State sayings has to do with soma?

21. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He writes a poem about solitude
Decanting

22. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
To bring rain
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Soma

23. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He whips himself
Orgy-Porgy

24. What Biblical phrase does Mustapha Mond use when children begin playing around him?

25. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Orgy-Porgy
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
Machinery and medicine and happiness

26. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
He whips himself
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

27. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin

28. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
Four months

29. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Soma
The D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society

30. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Encouraged
To bring rain
Tomakin
Helmholtz Watson

31. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
He conducted scientific experiments
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
John
The Bokanovsky Process

32. What Biblical phrase does Mustapha Mond use when children begin playing around him?

33. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'Suffer the children'
Soma

34. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
The Falkland Islands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Five

35. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

36. Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous?

37. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Tomakin
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Soma
The Director

38. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The Bokanovsky Process
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
Tomakin

39. What World State sayings has to do with soma?

40. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
He whips himself
Britian
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Director

41. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He conducted scientific experiments
Epsilons
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

42. After his return from the Reservation with the Savage - what event leads to Bernard's fall from social grace?

43. What color do delta babies always wear?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki
She is horrified
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

44. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
With an orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
Soma
Decanting

45. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Epsilons
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate

46. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
With an orgy
Decanting
Epsilons
Bernard Marx

47. How many main castes are there?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Five
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
With an orgy

48. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
The Bokanovsky Process

49. How many main castes are there?
He whips himself
Orgy-Porgy
The Falkland Islands
Five

50. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Soma
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Bokanovsky Process