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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
Decanting
Khaki

2. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Tomakin
He conducted scientific experiments
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

3. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Soma
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
Excessive soma intake

4. What is the motto of the World State?
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
The Falkland Islands
Community. Identity. Stability.

5. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Orgy-Porgy
His physique
The Falkland Islands
New Mexico

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

7. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Community. Identity. Stability.
Britian
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

8. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Soma
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

9. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Community. Identity. Stability.
John
Helmholtz Watson
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

10. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate

11. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Decanting
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

12. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Five

13. How many main castes are there?
The Director
Five
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

14. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons
'Suffer the children'
To bring rain

15. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

16. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The Falkland Islands
His physique
He whips himself
She is horrified

17. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Bernard Marx
Helmholtz Watson
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

18. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Orgy-Porgy
The D.H.C.
He conducted scientific experiments
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

19. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Violent Passion Surrogate
Tomakin

20. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
She is horrified
'Suffer the children'

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

22. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
'Suffer the children'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The D.H.C.
Soma

23. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He writes a poem about solitude

24. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Helmholtz Watson
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He whips himself
She is horrified

25. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Britian
He writes a poem about solitude
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake

26. What does Soma symbolize?
The Falkland Islands
Excessive soma intake
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

27. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
New Mexico
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Helmholtz Watson
He whips himself

28. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
The Director
Encouraged
She is horrified
The D.H.C.

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

30. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
The Falkland Islands
'Suffer the children'
The D.H.C.

31. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Bernard Marx
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable

32. How does the Solidarity Service end?
The Director
With an orgy
Bernard Marx
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

33. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Four months
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Decanting
Tomakin

34. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Both feel alienated from World State society
Violent Passion Surrogate
Decanting

35. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
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.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

36. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

37. What was the first book that John read as a child?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

38. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson
Epsilons

39. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John
Four months

40. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Because she slept with their husbands

41. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

42. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
With an orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Four months

43. 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
Tomakin
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Because she slept with their husbands

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

45. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
With an orgy
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director

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

47. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian
New Mexico
The D.H.C.

48. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
John
The Bokanovsky Process
Soma

49. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
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.
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process

50. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Bernard Marx
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.