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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Violent Passion Surrogate
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin

3. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Bernard Marx
The Director
The Falkland Islands

4. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Five
Violent Passion Surrogate
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

5. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process
Epsilons

6. How does the Solidarity Service end?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Decanting
With an orgy
Britian

7. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Epsilons
Decanting
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

8. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Machinery and medicine and happiness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director

9. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Bernard Marx

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

11. How many main castes are there?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Five
With an orgy

12. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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
The D.H.C.

13. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
He whips himself
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Soma
Community. Identity. Stability.

14. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Excessive soma intake
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged

15. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Five
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy

16. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake
The Director

17. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Khaki

18. What color do delta babies always wear?
'Suffer the children'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified
Khaki

19. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Violent Passion Surrogate
Five
He writes a poem about solitude

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

21. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
Tomakin
Five

22. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Soma
The D.H.C.
Tomakin

23. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Community. Identity. Stability.
Britian
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands

24. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Tomakin
Bernard Marx
The D.H.C.

25. What does Soma symbolize?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
New Mexico

26. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
He whips himself
Orgy-Porgy
Five

27. What is the motto of the World State?
Epsilons
Community. Identity. Stability.
Violent Passion Surrogate
New Mexico

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

29. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
John
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified

30. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

31. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
New Mexico
Five

32. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because she slept with their husbands

33. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Khaki
Bernard Marx
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

34. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
John
The Director
Four months
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

36. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
John
To bring rain
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

37. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Tomakin

38. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

39. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

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

41. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
John

42. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Director
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
New Mexico

43. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Community. Identity. Stability.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He writes a poem about solitude

44. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Falkland Islands
Both feel alienated from World State society
To bring rain

45. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Machinery and medicine and happiness
She is horrified
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

46. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
The Bokanovsky Process
Excessive soma intake
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.

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

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.'
Helmholtz Watson
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
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

49. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
She is horrified
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

50. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
Four months
Orgy-Porgy