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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Helmholtz Watson
Community. Identity. Stability.
Khaki
Excessive soma intake

2. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Falkland Islands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society

3. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Encouraged
Britian
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

4. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Helmholtz Watson
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin

5. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He writes a poem about solitude
Excessive soma intake

6. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Excessive soma intake

7. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John
He conducted scientific experiments

8. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

9. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director

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

11. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Tomakin

12. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Four months

13. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
She is horrified
The Director
The D.H.C.

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

15. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
The D.H.C.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

16. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
With an orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Five

17. How many main castes are there?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Five
Violent Passion Surrogate

18. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Helmholtz Watson

19. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Decanting
Tomakin
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique

20. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
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 Director
The Falkland Islands
A society of Alphas is unworkable

21. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
He conducted scientific experiments
Khaki
Because she slept with their husbands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

22. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
John
Tomakin
He conducted scientific experiments
Epsilons

23. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
The D.H.C.
Bernard Marx
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.

24. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Soma
The Director
Tomakin
The Bokanovsky Process

25. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Britian
To bring rain
New Mexico
He writes a poem about solitude

26. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified
To bring rain
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

27. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Epsilons

28. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
He writes a poem about solitude
Tomakin
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

29. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Both feel alienated from World State society
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

31. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
New Mexico
Decanting
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Community. Identity. Stability.

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

33. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

34. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
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.
Epsilons
He conducted scientific experiments

35. What does Soma symbolize?
He whips himself
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Britian

36. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Britian
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Excessive soma intake

37. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Helmholtz Watson
The Falkland Islands
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Epsilons

38. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
He conducted scientific experiments
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

39. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Excessive soma intake
Decanting
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

40. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Falkland Islands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He whips himself

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

42. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments

43. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

44. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Tomakin
The Falkland Islands
Excessive soma intake

45. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Director
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

46. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

47. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands
Bernard Marx
The Falkland Islands

48. How does the Solidarity Service end?
To bring rain
The Director
With an orgy
New Mexico

49. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
The Falkland Islands
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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