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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the motto of the World State?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Britian
Community. Identity. Stability.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

2. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
'Suffer the children'
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
Decanting

3. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Helmholtz Watson
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified

4. How many main castes are there?
Five
John
The Bokanovsky Process
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

5. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Both feel alienated from World State society
Britian
The Falkland Islands

6. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Violent Passion Surrogate
He conducted scientific experiments
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

7. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Decanting
'A gramme is better than a damn'
New Mexico

8. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Decanting
He conducted scientific experiments
New Mexico

9. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Epsilons
John
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

10. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Encouraged
Epsilons

11. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
The Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands
Encouraged

12. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Excessive soma intake
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
New Mexico
Violent Passion Surrogate

13. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Epsilons
He whips himself
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands

14. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Encouraged
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

15. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

17. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
With an orgy
John
Four months
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

18. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Director
Khaki
A society of Alphas is unworkable
New Mexico

19. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
With an orgy
Five

20. What does Soma symbolize?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

21. 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.'
Because she slept with their husbands
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Helmholtz Watson

22. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
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 D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society
His physique

23. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Encouraged
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
Excessive soma intake

24. Where does Brave New World take place?
Because she slept with their husbands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
Britian

25. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Five
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

26. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin

27. Where does Brave New World take place?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Excessive soma intake
Britian
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.

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

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29. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'Suffer the children'

30. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process
Khaki

31. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Because she slept with their husbands
Soma
Orgy-Porgy
John

32. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Excessive soma intake
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process

33. How many main castes are there?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Britian
Five
Violent Passion Surrogate

34. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Five
Bernard Marx

35. What was the first book that John read as a child?
New Mexico
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

36. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Bernard Marx
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

37. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Epsilons
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Britian

38. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

39. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
To bring rain

40. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Tomakin
'Suffer the children'
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Falkland Islands

41. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

42. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The D.H.C.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Four months

43. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Encouraged
Four months

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

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45. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Epsilons
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico

46. What is the motto of the World State?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Violent Passion Surrogate
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Community. Identity. Stability.

47. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Four months
Britian
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
She is horrified

48. How does the Solidarity Service end?
John
With an orgy
Khaki
Community. Identity. Stability.

49. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Community. Identity. Stability.
Five

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

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