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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






2. How does the Solidarity Service end?






3. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






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

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5. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






6. What does Soma symbolize?






7. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?






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

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9. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






10. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






11. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






12. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






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

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14. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?






15. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






16. What is the motto of the World State?






17. Who is John's father?






18. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






19. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?






20. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






21. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






22. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






23. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






24. Who is John's father?






25. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






26. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






27. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






28. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






29. What does Soma symbolize?






30. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






31. 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.'






32. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






33. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






34. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






35. Where does Brave New World take place?






36. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






37. What color do delta babies always wear?






38. Where does Brave New World take place?






39. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






40. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






41. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






42. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






43. 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.'






44. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?






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

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46. How many main castes are there?






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

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

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49. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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

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