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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Decanting
She is horrified
'Suffer the children'

2. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Epsilons
The Falkland Islands
To bring rain
Orgy-Porgy

3. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His physique

4. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
'Suffer the children'
With an orgy
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness

5. Where does Brave New World take place?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Britian
Soma

6. What is the motto of the World State?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.

7. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Epsilons
To bring rain
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Community. Identity. Stability.

8. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He conducted scientific experiments
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The D.H.C.
The Falkland Islands

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

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10. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
'Suffer the children'
Excessive soma intake
The D.H.C.

11. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma
The Bokanovsky Process
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

12. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Bernard Marx
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Bokanovsky Process
Tomakin

13. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Britian
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'

14. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Epsilons
She is horrified
New Mexico

15. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
With an orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

16. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Bernard Marx
Britian

17. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

18. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Violent Passion Surrogate
A society of Alphas is unworkable
His physique

19. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

20. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Britian
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

21. 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.'
Helmholtz Watson
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Bokanovsky Process

22. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

23. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
His physique
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
With an orgy
New Mexico

24. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director

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

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26. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

27. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
'Suffer the children'

28. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Orgy-Porgy
Epsilons
The Director
Tomakin

29. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
New Mexico
Encouraged
He whips himself
He writes a poem about solitude

30. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

31. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
With an orgy
John
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'A gramme is better than a damn'

32. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
He whips himself
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Tomakin

33. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
To bring rain
Because she slept with their husbands
'A gramme is better than a damn'

34. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
Britian

35. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Excessive soma intake
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.
Decanting

36. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The Falkland Islands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'A gramme is better than a damn'

37. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Machinery and medicine and happiness

38. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
Four months
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Four months

39. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Five
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Four months
Excessive soma intake

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

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41. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
Machinery and medicine and happiness
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Helmholtz Watson

42. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Director
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Both feel alienated from World State society

43. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons

44. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Epsilons
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

45. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'Suffer the children'
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable

46. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
She is horrified
Because she slept with their husbands
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

47. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Tomakin
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
John

48. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
John
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Four months

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

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50. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Violent Passion Surrogate
Tomakin
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.