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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
To bring rain
Four months
He whips himself

2. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

4. 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.'
Epsilons
Helmholtz Watson
'A gramme is better than a damn'
His physique

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

6. Who is John's father?
Soma
Decanting
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.

7. How many main castes are there?
He writes a poem about solitude
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Five
Britian

8. What color do delta babies always wear?
Orgy-Porgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Khaki

9. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

10. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Excessive soma intake
The Director

11. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
The Falkland Islands
She is horrified
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

12. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'A gramme is better than a damn'
John

13. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Because she slept with their husbands

14. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Epsilons
Tomakin
She is horrified
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

15. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson
Violent Passion Surrogate
'Suffer the children'

16. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
Excessive soma intake

17. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
He whips himself

18. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands
Tomakin
He writes a poem about solitude

19. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments

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

21. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
John
'A gramme is better than a damn'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

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

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

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

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

26. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
With an orgy

27. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness

28. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The D.H.C.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

30. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Four months
With an orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable

31. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Excessive soma intake
John
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

32. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons
Community. Identity. Stability.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

33. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Community. Identity. Stability.
He whips himself
He writes a poem about solitude
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

34. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

35. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Four months
Bernard Marx
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

36. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

37. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Tomakin
A society of Alphas is unworkable
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director

38. What does Soma symbolize?
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged

39. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He conducted scientific experiments
'Suffer the children'

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

41. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Epsilons
Khaki
'Suffer the children'
Bernard Marx

42. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Community. Identity. Stability.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
She is horrified

43. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake
The Falkland Islands
He writes a poem about solitude

44. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Decanting
His physique
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He conducted scientific experiments

45. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
She is horrified
Decanting
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A society of Alphas is unworkable

46. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
His physique
'Suffer the children'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Both feel alienated from World State society

47. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Excessive soma intake
Tomakin
Soma
With an orgy

48. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society
New Mexico
Orgy-Porgy

49. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
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.
Khaki
The Bokanovsky Process
A society of Alphas is unworkable

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