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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. What was the first book that John read as a child?
With an orgy
New Mexico
To bring rain
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

3. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Violent Passion Surrogate
A society of Alphas is unworkable
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

4. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
His physique
The Director
He writes a poem about solitude
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

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

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

7. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Britian
She is horrified
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

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

9. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Falkland Islands
Soma

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

11. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Director

12. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Khaki
His physique
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

14. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Excessive soma intake

15. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Helmholtz Watson
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Soma
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

16. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Director
Decanting
He conducted scientific experiments

17. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five

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

19. What is the motto of the World State?
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.
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'
Community. Identity. Stability.

20. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The D.H.C.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Decanting
He conducted scientific experiments

21. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Soma
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His physique
Both feel alienated from World State society

22. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
The Director
The Falkland Islands

23. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
Khaki

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

25. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin
He conducted scientific experiments
Four months

26. Where does Brave New World take place?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
Britian
Decanting

27. Who is John's father?
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The D.H.C.
Soma

28. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Excessive soma intake
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

30. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
New Mexico
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

31. What color do delta babies always wear?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki
He conducted scientific experiments
He whips himself

32. What is the motto of the World State?
Encouraged
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Community. Identity. Stability.
Decanting

33. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process

34. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Epsilons
The Falkland Islands

35. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
He whips himself
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

36. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Five
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The D.H.C.

37. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
'Suffer the children'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months
The Falkland Islands

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

39. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
Encouraged
Machinery and medicine and happiness
To bring rain

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

41. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Decanting
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
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.

42. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'A gramme is better than a damn'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin

43. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He conducted scientific experiments
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands

44. 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.'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Helmholtz Watson
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands

45. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Tomakin
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain

46. Where does Brave New World take place?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He writes a poem about solitude
Britian

47. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Soma
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Excessive soma intake
Britian

48. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Excessive soma intake

49. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Decanting
Tomakin
Violent Passion Surrogate
Bernard Marx

50. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The D.H.C.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Falkland Islands
'A gramme is better than a damn'