Test your basic knowledge |

Trivia: Brave New World

Subject : trivia

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. 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.'
Soma
Helmholtz Watson
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

2. 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.'
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

3. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
He writes a poem about solitude
Tomakin
The D.H.C.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

4. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
With an orgy
She is horrified
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

5. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Encouraged
New Mexico
Epsilons

6. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Both feel alienated from World State society
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands

7. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He conducted scientific experiments
A society of Alphas is unworkable
To bring rain
He whips himself

8. Explain 'HenryFord' and his importance in Brave New World

9. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

10. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
Bernard Marx

11. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Machinery and medicine and happiness
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

12. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Because she slept with their husbands
Encouraged
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Tomakin

13. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Bernard Marx
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique

14. Where does Brave New World take place?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique
Britian
Soma

15. What color do delta babies always wear?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Khaki
Excessive soma intake

16. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Bokanovsky Process

17. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
He conducted scientific experiments
Excessive soma intake
The Bokanovsky Process
To bring rain

18. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Britian
Bernard Marx
John
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

19. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Britian
He whips himself
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Soma

20. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
To bring rain
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The D.H.C.
He whips himself

21. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Falkland Islands
Because she slept with their husbands

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

23. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
To bring rain
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Decanting
The Falkland Islands

24. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

25. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Five
John
Helmholtz Watson
Because she slept with their husbands

26. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
He writes a poem about solitude
Epsilons
With an orgy
With an orgy

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

28. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Decanting
To bring rain
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'

29. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He conducted scientific experiments
'Suffer the children'

30. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
To bring rain
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.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

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

32. How does the Solidarity Service end?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society
With an orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

33. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process
She is horrified

34. Mustapha Mond says that 'You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .'

35. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Orgy-Porgy
Epsilons

36. What does Soma symbolize?
Excessive soma intake
'Suffer the children'
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

37. Who is John's father?
The Director
Decanting
The D.H.C.
To bring rain

38. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Excessive soma intake
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He conducted scientific experiments

39. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
John
Epsilons
He whips himself

40. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'

41. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Five
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
A society of Alphas is unworkable

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

43. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'A gramme is better than a damn'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Four months

44. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
John
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

45. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

46. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He writes a poem about solitude
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

47. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Excessive soma intake

48. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Khaki
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

49. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Khaki
With an orgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Decanting

50. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified
Helmholtz Watson