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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






2. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






3. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






4. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






5. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






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


7. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






8. What is the motto of the World State?






9. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






10. How many main castes are there?






11. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






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


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


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


15. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






16. What does Soma symbolize?






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


18. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






19. What was the first book that John read as a child?






20. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






21. What color do delta babies always wear?






22. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






23. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






24. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






25. 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.'






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


27. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






28. Where does Brave New World take place?






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


30. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






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


32. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






33. Who is John's father?






34. What does Soma symbolize?






35. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






36. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






37. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






38. How many main castes are there?






39. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






40. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






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


42. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






43. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






44. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?






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


46. How does the Solidarity Service end?






47. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?






48. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?






49. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






50. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?