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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Four months
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director

2. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Bokanovsky Process
She is horrified

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

4. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Orgy-Porgy
Both feel alienated from World State society
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

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

6. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
His physique
'A gramme is better than a damn'

7. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
'Suffer the children'
Khaki
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

8. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
She is horrified
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

9. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
John
The Falkland Islands
Helmholtz Watson

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

11. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

12. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The D.H.C.
Bernard Marx

13. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Tomakin
With an orgy
Orgy-Porgy

14. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Encouraged
Bernard Marx

15. How many main castes are there?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Encouraged
Five
To bring rain

16. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Violent Passion Surrogate
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Encouraged

17. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Encouraged
Britian
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Bokanovsky Process

18. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orgy-Porgy
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Epsilons

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

20. 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.'
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Helmholtz Watson
To bring rain

21. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Community. Identity. Stability.
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.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Bernard Marx

22. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Helmholtz Watson
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique

23. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Excessive soma intake

24. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
New Mexico
His physique
He whips himself
A society of Alphas is unworkable

25. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Khaki
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.

26. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
She is horrified
'Suffer the children'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Soma

27. Who is John's father?
Epsilons
The D.H.C.
Bernard Marx
Decanting

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

29. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Four months
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The D.H.C.

30. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Falkland Islands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain
Epsilons

31. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
To bring rain
Community. Identity. Stability.

32. What color do delta babies always wear?
'Suffer the children'
Khaki
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

33. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
The Director
The Director
Five
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

34. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Bernard Marx
His physique
The Bokanovsky Process
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.

35. What is the motto of the World State?
He writes a poem about solitude
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Community. Identity. Stability.

36. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
New Mexico
Soma

37. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The Falkland Islands
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

38. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Soma
John
Both feel alienated from World State society
Excessive soma intake

39. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Encouraged
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake
A society of Alphas is unworkable

40. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Helmholtz Watson
To bring rain
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 Falkland Islands

41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

42. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Decanting
She is horrified

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

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

45. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified
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.
He conducted scientific experiments

46. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Bokanovsky Process
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands
Bernard Marx

47. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Helmholtz Watson
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

48. 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.'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Helmholtz Watson
Britian
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

49. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Britian
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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