Test your basic knowledge |

Trivia: Brave New World

Subject : trivia

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because she slept with their husbands

2. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
She is horrified
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable

3. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
The Director
Encouraged
Five
Helmholtz Watson

4. What is the motto of the World State?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Soma
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged

5. 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
He writes a poem about solitude
To bring rain

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

7. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
John
Epsilons
Soma
Excessive soma intake

8. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
He conducted scientific experiments
He conducted scientific experiments
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

9. What does Soma symbolize?
To bring rain
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Epsilons
He conducted scientific experiments

10. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
He conducted scientific experiments
With an orgy
Tomakin

11. What is the motto of the World State?
Excessive soma intake
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki

12. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
John

13. What was the first book that John read as a child?
John
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Four months

14. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Epsilons
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
She is horrified
He conducted scientific experiments

15. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico
He whips himself
Soma

16. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Five
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

17. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Orgy-Porgy
He conducted scientific experiments
He whips himself
Soma

18. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Soma
He whips himself

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

20. Who is John's father?
Epsilons
Decanting
The D.H.C.
His physique

21. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
His physique
'Suffer the children'
Britian

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

23. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Because she slept with their husbands
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified

24. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
With an orgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

25. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Tomakin
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

26. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
The Falkland Islands
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.
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx

27. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Khaki
'A gramme is better than a damn'
John
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

28. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
He writes a poem about solitude
She is horrified
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

29. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
Epsilons
Tomakin

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

31. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
She is horrified
Helmholtz Watson
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

32. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Excessive soma intake
John

33. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Helmholtz Watson
Five
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands

34. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Britian
She is horrified
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

35. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

36. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Decanting
To bring rain
He conducted scientific experiments

37. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Director
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Epsilons
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

38. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

39. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
His physique
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Violent Passion Surrogate

40. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
He writes a poem about solitude
Excessive soma intake

41. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
To bring rain

42. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

43. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Helmholtz Watson
To bring rain
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
With an orgy

44. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
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.
Britian
The Bokanovsky Process

45. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Both feel alienated from World State society
To bring rain

46. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Machinery and medicine and happiness
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Khaki

47. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Khaki
The Falkland Islands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

48. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified

49. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Excessive soma intake
Both feel alienated from World State society
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

50. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
New Mexico
Four months
Khaki
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre