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Trivia: Brave New World
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1. What is the origin of the title Brave New World?
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2. 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.'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Four months
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
3. What color do delta babies always wear?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
New Mexico
Khaki
4. What World State sayings has to do with soma?
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5. Who is John's father?
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The D.H.C.
Five
6. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society
7. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
8. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
New Mexico
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Britian
9. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake
'Suffer the children'
With an orgy
10. Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous?
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11. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Soma
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Helmholtz Watson
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
12. Who is John's father?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
He writes a poem about solitude
Khaki
The D.H.C.
13. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Decanting
Encouraged
14. How does the Solidarity Service end?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
With an orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
15. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
John
Four months
She is horrified
He whips himself
16. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Britian
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands
17. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Soma
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.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
18. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
New Mexico
He conducted scientific experiments
Both feel alienated from World State society
19. How many main castes are there?
He writes a poem about solitude
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
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.
20. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'A gramme is better than a damn'
21. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
22. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
23. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'Suffer the children'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
24. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
John
Five
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
25. What is the origin of the title Brave New World?
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26. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Epsilons
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Orgy-Porgy
Excessive soma intake
27. After his return from the Reservation with the Savage - what event leads to Bernard's fall from social grace?
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28. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Epsilons
Bernard Marx
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Bernard Marx
29. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
He conducted scientific experiments
Tomakin
The Director
Britian
30. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Five
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique
Khaki
31. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Decanting
Five
32. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Both feel alienated from World State society
33. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Helmholtz Watson
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
34. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Both feel alienated from World State society
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Falkland Islands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
35. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Bernard Marx
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Falkland Islands
36. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His physique
Excessive soma intake
Community. Identity. Stability.
37. Mustapha Mond says that 'You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .'
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38. What is the motto of the World State?
Encouraged
To bring rain
Community. Identity. Stability.
Five
39. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson
40. Why does Fanny try to convince Lenina to be more promiscuous?
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41. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Falkland Islands
Decanting
The Bokanovsky Process
42. What does Soma symbolize?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Britian
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
43. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Falkland Islands
Decanting
44. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
New Mexico
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
45. Mustapha Mond says that 'You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .'
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46. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Four months
Violent Passion Surrogate
Soma
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
47. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Orgy-Porgy
48. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Five
She is horrified
Both feel alienated from World State society
49. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He writes a poem about solitude
Bernard Marx
She is horrified
50. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Violent Passion Surrogate
He whips himself
She is horrified
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness