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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Violent Passion Surrogate

2. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Bokanovsky Process
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Tomakin

3. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
His physique
Decanting
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

5. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Soma
The Director
To bring rain

6. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Soma
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

7. What does Soma symbolize?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Four months
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

8. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Five
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Both feel alienated from World State society

9. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Orgy-Porgy

10. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Encouraged
The Director
The D.H.C.
Soma

11. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Epsilons
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
John
Violent Passion Surrogate

12. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Bokanovsky Process

13. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Helmholtz Watson

14. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director
John
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

15. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
John
Epsilons
To bring rain
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

16. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Britian
The Bokanovsky Process
Excessive soma intake
Tomakin

17. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy
Encouraged
To bring rain

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

19. 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
New Mexico
To bring rain
Khaki

20. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Helmholtz Watson
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He writes a poem about solitude
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

21. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
The Falkland Islands
Machinery and medicine and happiness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
To bring rain

22. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy

23. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

24. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Four months
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

25. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
John
Four months
A society of Alphas is unworkable
His physique

26. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Encouraged
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique

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

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

29. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Tomakin
Five

30. 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
Decanting
Helmholtz Watson
John

31. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Tomakin
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
She is horrified

32. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Falkland Islands
She is horrified
Tomakin

33. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
He conducted scientific experiments
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Bernard Marx
The D.H.C.

34. Where does Brave New World take place?
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Britian
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

35. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands
Because she slept with their husbands

36. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Falkland Islands
Khaki
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

37. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Falkland Islands

38. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Four months
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
He conducted scientific experiments
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

39. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
He writes a poem about solitude
He writes a poem about solitude
Because she slept with their husbands

40. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months
Epsilons

41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He writes a poem about solitude
Four months
With an orgy

42. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Britian
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Four months

43. What color do delta babies always wear?
John
Khaki
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process

44. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Orgy-Porgy
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson
Four months

45. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson
Encouraged

46. Who is John's father?
He writes a poem about solitude
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The D.H.C.
'Suffer the children'

47. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He whips himself

48. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Helmholtz Watson
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.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

49. 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.'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
His physique
Helmholtz Watson
Khaki

50. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
To bring rain
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The D.H.C.