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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
To bring rain

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

3. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

4. What was the first book that John read as a child?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He writes a poem about solitude
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified

5. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Excessive soma intake
John
'Suffer the children'

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

7. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
'Suffer the children'
He whips himself
Soma

8. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged

9. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Four months
Epsilons
He whips himself

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

11. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin

12. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Director
Helmholtz Watson

13. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
New Mexico
The Bokanovsky Process
Decanting
The D.H.C.

14. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
New Mexico
The D.H.C.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting

15. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Orgy-Porgy
Community. Identity. Stability.

16. What color do delta babies always wear?
His physique
Khaki
Both feel alienated from World State society
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

17. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'Suffer the children'
The Director

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

19. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Bokanovsky Process
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Both feel alienated from World State society

20. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Britian
Tomakin

21. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
His physique
Excessive soma intake
Four months
Because she slept with their husbands

22. What was the first book that John read as a child?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Because she slept with their husbands

23. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The Director
Decanting
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Violent Passion Surrogate

24. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged
Because she slept with their husbands

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

26. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The Bokanovsky Process
Violent Passion Surrogate
To bring rain
Helmholtz Watson

27. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
With an orgy
'Suffer the children'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Tomakin

28. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The Director
Decanting
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

29. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Four months
The Falkland Islands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Machinery and medicine and happiness

30. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Bokanovsky Process
Five
Soma

31. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
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.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Falkland Islands

32. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Tomakin
Five

33. What is the motto of the World State?
The Bokanovsky Process
Community. Identity. Stability.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Epsilons

34. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Both feel alienated from World State society
With an orgy
The Bokanovsky Process

35. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
'Suffer the children'
Britian
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

36. 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.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Helmholtz Watson
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

37. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Bokanovsky Process
Epsilons
To bring rain
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

38. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
Britian
Bernard Marx
Soma

39. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

40. What does Soma symbolize?
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.
New Mexico
'Suffer the children'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

41. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Community. Identity. Stability.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

42. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

43. How does the Solidarity Service end?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
She is horrified
With an orgy

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

45. Where does Brave New World take place?
His physique
Britian
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Decanting

46. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Bernard Marx

47. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Four months
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Encouraged
Britian

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

49. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
'Suffer the children'
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands
He whips himself

50. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'Suffer the children'
New Mexico
To bring rain