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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What color do delta babies always wear?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Community. Identity. Stability.

2. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Machinery and medicine and happiness

3. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The D.H.C.
The D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

4. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
The Falkland Islands
Khaki
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

5. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Falkland Islands
The Director
Bernard Marx

6. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
John
Five
Community. Identity. Stability.

7. 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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Community. Identity. Stability.
Decanting
Epsilons

8. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
His physique
The Bokanovsky Process
Four months
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

9. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Bokanovsky Process
Five
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

10. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

11. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

12. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Encouraged
Khaki
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'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. Mustapha Mond says that 'You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .'

15. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Soma

16. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
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.
Decanting

17. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He writes a poem about solitude
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

18. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
To bring rain
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Britian

19. How many main castes are there?
Five
She is horrified
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

20. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Britian
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Encouraged

21. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons
He whips himself

22. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands
She is horrified
John

23. 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
Because she slept with their husbands
To bring rain
Helmholtz Watson

24. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Helmholtz Watson
He conducted scientific experiments
She is horrified
The Director

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

26. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
He whips himself
Four months
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

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

28. Who is John's father?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Epsilons
The D.H.C.

29. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Machinery and medicine and happiness

30. What does Soma symbolize?
Decanting
Bernard Marx
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
'Suffer the children'

31. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
With an orgy

32. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Epsilons
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Britian

33. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
To bring rain
Tomakin
He writes a poem about solitude

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

35. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Five
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director

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

37. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director

38. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
He conducted scientific experiments
His physique
'A gramme is better than a damn'

39. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
To bring rain
John
The Director
Bernard Marx

40. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

42. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Encouraged
A society of Alphas is unworkable
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

43. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Encouraged
The Director

44. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified

45. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Khaki
The Falkland Islands
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands

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

47. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Helmholtz Watson
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

48. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Orgy-Porgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Excessive soma intake

49. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Encouraged
He conducted scientific experiments
With an orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

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