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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
The Bokanovsky Process
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Four months

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

3. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
John
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

4. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
Excessive soma intake

5. What does Soma symbolize?
Five
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
To bring rain
John

6. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Soma
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Falkland Islands

7. How many main castes are there?
He writes a poem about solitude
With an orgy
The Director
Five

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

9. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
New Mexico
He conducted scientific experiments
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

10. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Four months
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico

11. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
John
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process

12. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
He conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain
Helmholtz Watson

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

14. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
To bring rain
Both feel alienated from World State society
Orgy-Porgy

15. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
He writes a poem about solitude
Five
Violent Passion Surrogate

16. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Helmholtz Watson

17. 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
Soma
Community. Identity. Stability.

18. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

19. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
The D.H.C.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
She is horrified
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

20. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
With an orgy

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

22. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Both feel alienated from World State society

23. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Khaki
Epsilons
Encouraged
He writes a poem about solitude

24. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Bernard Marx
With an orgy
He conducted scientific experiments

25. What does Soma symbolize?
Soma
New Mexico
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

26. How does the Solidarity Service end?
John
With an orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Encouraged

27. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
He conducted scientific experiments
He writes a poem about solitude
Orgy-Porgy

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

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

30. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian

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

32. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Five
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

33. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Community. Identity. Stability.
He whips himself
Britian
The Bokanovsky Process

34. What is the motto of the World State?
Because she slept with their husbands
She is horrified
With an orgy
Community. Identity. Stability.

35. 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
Five
Five
The Bokanovsky Process

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

37. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
New Mexico
To bring rain

38. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
To bring rain
New Mexico

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

40. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands

41. What color do delta babies always wear?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Khaki
Community. Identity. Stability.
Epsilons

42. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
To bring rain
Both feel alienated from World State society

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

44. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
She is horrified
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.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

46. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Bernard Marx
The Falkland Islands
His physique
Because she slept with their husbands

47. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Five
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

48. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Tomakin
He whips himself
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

49. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Tomakin
Helmholtz Watson
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

50. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Community. Identity. Stability.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest