Trivia: Brave New World

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

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2. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because she slept with their husbands


3. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
The Director
Tomakin
The D.H.C.
She is horrified


4. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Khaki
Machinery and medicine and happiness
With an orgy


5. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Tomakin
Tomakin
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Director


6. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Bernard Marx
Britian
She is horrified


7. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society
Four months
New Mexico


8. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Community. Identity. Stability.


9. Who is John's father?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The D.H.C.
The Falkland Islands


10. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Encouraged
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


11. How many main castes are there?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
The Falkland Islands
Khaki


12. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
New Mexico
The Director
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.


13. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


14. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
John
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


15. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The D.H.C.
The Director
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


16. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
John
To bring rain
Violent Passion Surrogate


17. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


18. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Five
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Both feel alienated from World State society


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

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20. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson


21. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Bernard Marx
John


22. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process
To bring rain


23. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
New Mexico
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain
The Falkland Islands


24. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
To bring rain
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin


25. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Orgy-Porgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'


26. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Encouraged
Orgy-Porgy


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.'
Helmholtz Watson
Britian
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Encouraged


28. What is the motto of the World State?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Community. Identity. Stability.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


29. 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.'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
Helmholtz Watson


30. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
She is horrified
Four months
Because she slept with their husbands


31. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Tomakin
New Mexico
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate


32. How many main castes are there?
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
She is horrified
Five


33. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
She is horrified
Decanting
His physique
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


34. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Bokanovsky Process
He whips himself


35. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Tomakin
The Director
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


36. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
He writes a poem about solitude
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
Community. Identity. Stability.


37. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Encouraged
To bring rain
With an orgy
Both feel alienated from World State society


38. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Bernard Marx
Encouraged
Epsilons


39. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
He whips himself
His physique
Bernard Marx
Epsilons


40. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
She is horrified
Orgy-Porgy


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

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

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43. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Epsilons


44. Who is John's father?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


45. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
John
He whips himself
The Bokanovsky Process
Epsilons


46. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


47. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Because she slept with their husbands
He whips himself
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Tomakin


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

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49. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
John
His physique
Both feel alienated from World State society


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

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