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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
She is horrified
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director
Excessive soma intake

2. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Decanting
New Mexico
Machinery and medicine and happiness

3. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin

4. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
Khaki

5. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
He conducted scientific experiments
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
Decanting

6. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He writes a poem about solitude
The D.H.C.
Four months

7. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Tomakin
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

8. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Helmholtz Watson
He writes a poem about solitude
With an orgy
Soma

9. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Britian
He writes a poem about solitude
The Falkland Islands
The Director

10. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'Suffer the children'
Both feel alienated from World State society
Machinery and medicine and happiness

11. Who is John's father?
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process
Four months
The D.H.C.

12. What color do delta babies always wear?
Both feel alienated from World State society
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Because she slept with their husbands
Khaki

13. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
John
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

14. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Epsilons
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Bokanovsky Process

15. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'Suffer the children'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

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

17. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process

18. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Khaki
The Director
He writes a poem about solitude
Because she slept with their husbands

19. How does the Solidarity Service end?
The D.H.C.
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Falkland Islands

20. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Bokanovsky Process
Epsilons

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

22. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Both feel alienated from World State society
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

23. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
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.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

25. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Bokanovsky Process
He conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain

26. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
He whips himself
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

27. What does Soma symbolize?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Soma
Khaki

28. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'Suffer the children'
The Bokanovsky Process

29. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The D.H.C.

30. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Community. Identity. Stability.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Britian
Violent Passion Surrogate

31. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
His physique
A society of Alphas is unworkable

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

33. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
To bring rain
The Director
She is horrified
With an orgy

34. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
The D.H.C.

35. What was the first book that John read as a child?
New Mexico
Orgy-Porgy
Excessive soma intake
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

36. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Bokanovsky Process
Epsilons
New Mexico

37. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Four months
He writes a poem about solitude
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

38. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Four months
She is horrified
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

39. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

40. How many main castes are there?
The Director
The Director
Five
Both feel alienated from World State society

41. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He writes a poem about solitude
To bring rain
The Falkland Islands
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

42. Where does Brave New World take place?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
New Mexico
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian

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

44. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged
The Falkland Islands
Four months

45. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Tomakin
Helmholtz Watson
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

46. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
John
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'Suffer the children'
Four months

47. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Epsilons
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
New Mexico
Four months

48. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Community. Identity. Stability.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John

49. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Britian
The D.H.C.

50. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Britian
Five