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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. 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.'
Bernard Marx
Britian
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson

2. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John
'A gramme is better than a damn'

3. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Soma
Decanting
The Falkland Islands
The Director

4. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
His physique
The Falkland Islands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Soma

5. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Bernard Marx
The Director
Four months

6. What color do delta babies always wear?
Soma
Tomakin
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki

7. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
His physique
Khaki

8. How many main castes are there?
Helmholtz Watson
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Five
The Director

9. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Britian
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Excessive soma intake
Tomakin

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

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11. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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 Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'A gramme is better than a damn'

12. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He whips himself

13. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His physique
Khaki

14. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
Encouraged
Decanting

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

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

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17. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John
Encouraged

18. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The D.H.C.
Khaki
Tomakin

19. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Epsilons
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy

20. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Orgy-Porgy

21. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Khaki
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

22. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Encouraged
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Bernard Marx
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

23. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
The Bokanovsky Process
The Bokanovsky Process
Both feel alienated from World State society
Excessive soma intake

24. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'Suffer the children'

25. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John
Both feel alienated from World State society

26. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Orgy-Porgy
His physique

27. 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.'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Helmholtz Watson
'A gramme is better than a damn'

28. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Britian
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

29. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Decanting
The Falkland Islands

30. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
To bring rain
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The D.H.C.

31. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He conducted scientific experiments

32. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
He writes a poem about solitude
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.
Excessive soma intake

33. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Soma
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Five

34. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
Excessive soma intake
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

35. Where does Brave New World take place?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Britian
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
To bring rain

36. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

37. What was the first book that John read as a child?
New Mexico
Orgy-Porgy
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

38. What does Soma symbolize?
Both feel alienated from World State society
'Suffer the children'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

39. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
'Suffer the children'
To bring rain
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Bernard Marx

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

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41. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged
Epsilons
The Falkland Islands

42. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Encouraged
To bring rain
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness

43. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Encouraged
Epsilons
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

44. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process
He writes a poem about solitude

45. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

46. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
To bring rain
Helmholtz Watson
Encouraged

47. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Violent Passion Surrogate
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin

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

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49. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Five
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 powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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