Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How many main castes are there?
Five
Britian
Both feel alienated from World State society
Epsilons


2. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
To bring rain
Violent Passion Surrogate


3. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He conducted scientific experiments
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Both feel alienated from World State society


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

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

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6. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Excessive soma intake
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Four months


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


8. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He writes a poem about solitude
Khaki
'A gramme is better than a damn'


9. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Decanting
Soma
The D.H.C.


10. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments
Britian


11. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Community. Identity. Stability.
His physique
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


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

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13. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orgy-Porgy
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


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

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

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16. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Soma
Orgy-Porgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


17. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Soma
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His physique


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


19. 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.'
'Suffer the children'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Helmholtz Watson
Violent Passion Surrogate


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

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21. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Bernard Marx
He conducted scientific experiments
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He writes a poem about solitude


22. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Five
He whips himself
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Decanting


23. 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.'
Community. Identity. Stability.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Helmholtz Watson


24. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Violent Passion Surrogate
Helmholtz Watson
Decanting


25. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Falkland Islands
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


26. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His physique
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


27. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
To bring rain
'A gramme is better than a damn'
She is horrified


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

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29. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process


30. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Tomakin
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


31. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Bernard Marx
New Mexico
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


32. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
Bernard Marx


33. Who is John's father?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Encouraged
With an orgy
The D.H.C.


34. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
She is horrified
He conducted scientific experiments


35. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Tomakin
New Mexico
Machinery and medicine and happiness


36. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Community. Identity. Stability.
Soma
John


37. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Five
Orgy-Porgy
Britian


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

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39. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Because she slept with their husbands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Excessive soma intake
The Falkland Islands


40. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director


41. What does Soma symbolize?
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He whips himself
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


42. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Falkland Islands
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


43. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The D.H.C.
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.
He writes a poem about solitude


44. What color do delta babies always wear?
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Five
Khaki


45. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Community. Identity. Stability.
Bernard Marx
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


46. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
With an orgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Epsilons
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


47. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Encouraged
He writes a poem about solitude


48. Where does Brave New World take place?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands
The D.H.C.


49. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
To bring rain
He whips himself
Encouraged
Four months


50. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Violent Passion Surrogate
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