Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Four months
Orgy-Porgy
To bring rain


2. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
'Suffer the children'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Falkland Islands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


3. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
With an orgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Decanting


4. Who is John's father?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Epsilons
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The D.H.C.


5. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Bernard Marx
Britian
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


6. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He writes a poem about solitude


7. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Tomakin
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


8. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Orgy-Porgy
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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
She is horrified


9. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Falkland Islands
Bernard Marx


10. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
She is horrified
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


11. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because she slept with their husbands


12. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Britian
'A gramme is better than a damn'
She is horrified
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


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

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14. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Helmholtz Watson
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Decanting
Violent Passion Surrogate


15. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
Orgy-Porgy
'Suffer the children'
The Bokanovsky Process


16. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Orgy-Porgy
Both feel alienated from World State society
With an orgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


17. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness


18. Where does Brave New World take place?
Khaki
John
Britian
Excessive soma intake


19. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Falkland Islands
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Orgy-Porgy


20. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Four months
Excessive soma intake
Five


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

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

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23. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He writes a poem about solitude
He conducted scientific experiments
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Britian


24. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Epsilons
Britian
New Mexico


25. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Helmholtz Watson
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
John


26. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
He whips himself
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Violent Passion Surrogate


27. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Five
Soma
Orgy-Porgy


28. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Khaki
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
New Mexico


29. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
The Director
'Suffer the children'
With an orgy


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

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31. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Four months
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness


32. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
His physique
Machinery and medicine and happiness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


33. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Excessive soma intake


34. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


35. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Tomakin


36. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Tomakin
To bring rain
Khaki


37. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Khaki
To bring rain
With an orgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


38. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Both feel alienated from World State society
With an orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


39. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki
Bernard Marx
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


40. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Khaki
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Bokanovsky Process


41. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
His physique
John
Khaki


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

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43. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
John
Soma
Bernard Marx


44. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The Bokanovsky Process
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Decanting
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


45. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Soma
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


46. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Excessive soma intake
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He whips himself


47. How does the Solidarity Service end?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
With an orgy


48. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


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

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50. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Five
Because she slept with their husbands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'