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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Four months
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He conducted scientific experiments

2. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He whips himself
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

3. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
The Director
Orgy-Porgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

5. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
Encouraged
Epsilons
Both feel alienated from World State society

6. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
New Mexico
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because she slept with their husbands
Orgy-Porgy

7. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Helmholtz Watson
The D.H.C.
With an orgy
Because she slept with their husbands

8. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Tomakin
He conducted scientific experiments
Four months
Four months

9. 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
Excessive soma intake
Violent Passion Surrogate
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

10. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Helmholtz Watson
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

11. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process
John
Encouraged

12. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Falkland Islands

13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
She is horrified
Because she slept with their husbands
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

14. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Epsilons
Orgy-Porgy

15. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

17. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Encouraged

18. How many main castes are there?
Tomakin
She is horrified
Five
Four months

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

20. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Bernard Marx
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Five

21. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
He whips himself
Epsilons
The Falkland Islands
The D.H.C.

22. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Epsilons
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orgy-Porgy
The Director

23. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
'Suffer the children'
Orgy-Porgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

24. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson
He writes a poem about solitude
Because she slept with their husbands

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

26. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John
The Falkland Islands
Four months

27. What does Soma symbolize?
Britian
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Falkland Islands
He whips himself

28. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
With an orgy
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A society of Alphas is unworkable

29. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Bernard Marx
He whips himself
Five

30. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Encouraged
Britian
Decanting

31. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

32. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Because she slept with their husbands
He conducted scientific experiments
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
A society of Alphas is unworkable

33. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Four months
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
John
Helmholtz Watson

34. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Encouraged
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

35. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Four months
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified

36. What does Soma symbolize?
The D.H.C.
The Director
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

37. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
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 conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

38. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Encouraged

39. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
With an orgy
Khaki
The Bokanovsky Process
Five

40. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Bokanovsky Process
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Khaki

41. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.
Five
Bernard Marx

42. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Encouraged
Bernard Marx
The Director
New Mexico

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

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

45. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society
He conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain

46. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
John
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments

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

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

49. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Falkland Islands
Helmholtz Watson
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

50. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
He writes a poem about solitude
Soma
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Because she slept with their husbands