Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Four months
John
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands


2. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'A gramme is better than a damn'


3. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The Bokanovsky Process
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Excessive soma intake


4. 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
Soma
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


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

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6. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
Community. Identity. Stability.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Tomakin


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

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8. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
Encouraged


9. 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
Helmholtz Watson
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


10. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
John
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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
He writes a poem about solitude


11. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified
Orgy-Porgy


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

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13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
To bring rain
Decanting
She is horrified


14. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Decanting
The Director
New Mexico
He whips himself


15. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
New Mexico
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian


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

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17. Where does Brave New World take place?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian
A society of Alphas is unworkable


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

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19. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Excessive soma intake
Decanting
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain


20. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Soma
Bernard Marx
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He whips himself


21. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
She is horrified
His physique
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Tomakin


22. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Soma
To bring rain


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

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24. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
He conducted scientific experiments
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Decanting
Because she slept with their husbands


25. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki
With an orgy
With an orgy


26. What does Soma symbolize?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He writes a poem about solitude
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


27. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
'Suffer the children'
Encouraged
Because she slept with their husbands


28. What color do delta babies always wear?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Falkland Islands
Khaki


29. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Encouraged
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


30. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
Soma


31. Where does Brave New World take place?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society
Britian
With an orgy


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

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33. How many main castes are there?
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
Five
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


34. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
To bring rain
Britian
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


35. 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.'
'Suffer the children'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson
With an orgy


36. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
The D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society
Epsilons
Khaki


37. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
She is horrified
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands
Helmholtz Watson


38. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Epsilons
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Falkland Islands
He whips himself


39. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Epsilons
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
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.


40. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Excessive soma intake


41. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Soma
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


42. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Tomakin
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He writes a poem about solitude
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


43. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Tomakin
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Britian
Soma


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

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45. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
He whips himself
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Orgy-Porgy
New Mexico


46. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Encouraged
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
A society of Alphas is unworkable


47. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
The Bokanovsky Process
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Khaki


48. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Khaki
Tomakin
Violent Passion Surrogate
Britian


49. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
She is horrified


50. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Excessive soma intake
Britian
Violent Passion Surrogate