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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
The Director
Britian
She is horrified

2. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Excessive soma intake
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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

3. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Helmholtz Watson
Tomakin
Machinery and medicine and happiness

4. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Violent Passion Surrogate
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He whips himself

5. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

6. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

7. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Both feel alienated from World State society

8. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'A gramme is better than a damn'

9. What is the motto of the World State?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because she slept with their husbands
Community. Identity. Stability.
New Mexico

10. How many main castes are there?
Khaki
Because she slept with their husbands
Five
To bring rain

11. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
He conducted scientific experiments
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Four months
New Mexico

12. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Excessive soma intake
Four months
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

13. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Orgy-Porgy
New Mexico

14. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
'A gramme is better than a damn'
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

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

16. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Community. Identity. Stability.

17. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
With an orgy
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Epsilons

18. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Soma
Epsilons
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

20. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
To bring rain
Bernard Marx
Violent Passion Surrogate
John

21. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

22. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
She is horrified
Soma
The Director

23. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

24. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Epsilons
Soma
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Encouraged

25. 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.'
'Suffer the children'
The Director
Helmholtz Watson
He whips himself

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

27. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society
Community. Identity. Stability.

28. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Bokanovsky Process
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Epsilons
He writes a poem about solitude

29. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Britian
The Director
Four months
Tomakin

30. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Soma
Orgy-Porgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months

31. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Britian
Orgy-Porgy

32. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His physique
Four months
The Director

33. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Encouraged
Five

34. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
New Mexico
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He conducted scientific experiments
Machinery and medicine and happiness

35. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because she slept with their husbands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He conducted scientific experiments

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

37. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

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

39. Where does Brave New World take place?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Both feel alienated from World State society
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Britian

40. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
He whips himself
Bernard Marx
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Khaki

41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Epsilons
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Four months
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

42. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
The D.H.C.
The Falkland Islands
Helmholtz Watson

43. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because she slept with their husbands

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

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

46. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
His physique
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
To bring rain

47. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

48. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Orgy-Porgy
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.

49. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
With an orgy
The Falkland Islands

50. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands
'A gramme is better than a damn'
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.