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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






2. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






3. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






4. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






5. What does Soma symbolize?






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

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7. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






8. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






9. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






10. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






11. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






12. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






13. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






14. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?






15. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






16. What was the first book that John read as a child?






17. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






18. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






19. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






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

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

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

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23. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






24. Where does Brave New World take place?






25. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






26. What does Soma symbolize?






27. What is the motto of the World State?






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

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29. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






30. 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.'






31. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






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

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33. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






34. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?






35. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






36. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






37. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






38. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






39. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






40. What is the motto of the World State?






41. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






42. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






43. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






44. Who is John's father?






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

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46. Who is John's father?






47. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






48. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






49. 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.'






50. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?