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Trivia: Brave New World
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1. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John
Helmholtz Watson
2. 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.'
Bernard Marx
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson
The Falkland Islands
3. Mustapha Mond says that 'You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .'
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4. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique
The Falkland Islands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
5. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Four months
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
'A gramme is better than a damn'
6. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
His physique
Bernard Marx
Tomakin
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
7. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Bokanovsky Process
He conducted scientific experiments
8. 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.
He conducted scientific experiments
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Five
9. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
John
Both feel alienated from World State society
Excessive soma intake
Orgy-Porgy
10. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
John
Orgy-Porgy
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake
11. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'Suffer the children'
Four months
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
12. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Bokanovsky Process
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Khaki
13. What is the motto of the World State?
Tomakin
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain
Community. Identity. Stability.
14. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
15. What is the origin of the title Brave New World?
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16. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
She is horrified
Both feel alienated from World State society
He conducted scientific experiments
Excessive soma intake
17. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
He conducted scientific experiments
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Britian
Orgy-Porgy
18. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Helmholtz Watson
His physique
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting
19. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
The Bokanovsky Process
20. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
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
21. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
His physique
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
22. What is the origin of the title Brave New World?
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23. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
24. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Falkland Islands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Violent Passion Surrogate
25. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
He conducted scientific experiments
Violent Passion Surrogate
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
26. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Violent Passion Surrogate
John
Britian
New Mexico
27. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico
Epsilons
Both feel alienated from World State society
28. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He whips himself
'Suffer the children'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
29. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He whips himself
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
30. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Director
Khaki
Britian
The D.H.C.
31. Who is John's father?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
Britian
The D.H.C.
32. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
To bring rain
Because she slept with their husbands
Community. Identity. Stability.
Orgy-Porgy
33. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Four months
He writes a poem about solitude
Orgy-Porgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable
34. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Five
Soma
The D.H.C.
Decanting
35. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Encouraged
The Bokanovsky Process
John
36. Where does Brave New World take place?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
37. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He whips himself
38. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
She is horrified
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Four months
Soma
39. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Britian
He whips himself
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
40. What World State sayings has to do with soma?
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41. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
42. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
The D.H.C.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
43. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The Falkland Islands
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Excessive soma intake
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
44. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Director
She is horrified
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
45. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
Khaki
The D.H.C.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
46. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Orgy-Porgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
To bring rain
'A gramme is better than a damn'
47. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
New Mexico
Epsilons
The Falkland Islands
Orgy-Porgy
48. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments
49. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
50. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate
He conducted scientific experiments
'plenty of pleasant vices.'