Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
With an orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Bernard Marx
She is horrified


2. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Bernard Marx
Decanting
To bring rain
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


3. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Bokanovsky Process
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Decanting


4. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Five
Excessive soma intake
Soma
Tomakin


5. What is the motto of the World State?
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico
Community. Identity. Stability.
To bring rain


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

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7. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Excessive soma intake
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Soma


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

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9. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Director
New Mexico
With an orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


10. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
The Director
Encouraged
Tomakin
His physique


11. What does Soma symbolize?
Because she slept with their husbands
He whips himself
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


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

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13. Who is John's father?
Both feel alienated from World State society
John
Epsilons
The D.H.C.


14. What color do delta babies always wear?
Encouraged
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Khaki
The Director


15. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Helmholtz Watson
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society


16. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Khaki
Community. Identity. Stability.
Four months


17. How many main castes are there?
Five
Four months
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


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

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19. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
To bring rain
Four months


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

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21. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
With an orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


22. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson
He writes a poem about solitude
Excessive soma intake


23. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
'Suffer the children'
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.


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

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25. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Bernard Marx
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Orgy-Porgy
She is horrified


26. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Both feel alienated from World State society
With an orgy


27. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting


28. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Excessive soma intake
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director
Decanting


29. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His physique
He writes a poem about solitude
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Both feel alienated from World State society


30. 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'
He writes a poem about solitude
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Bokanovsky Process


31. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The Falkland Islands
He writes a poem about solitude
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Helmholtz Watson


32. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process
Machinery and medicine and happiness


33. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Five
Decanting
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


34. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Soma
Excessive soma intake
Helmholtz Watson


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.'
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson
Decanting
Epsilons


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


37. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Epsilons
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


38. Who is John's father?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The D.H.C.
With an orgy
She is horrified


39. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
'A gramme is better than a damn'


40. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
'Suffer the children'
John
The D.H.C.
Khaki


41. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico
Epsilons


42. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate
Soma
John


43. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Decanting
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


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

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45. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Five
A society of Alphas is unworkable


46. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Four months
With an orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


47. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
Machinery and medicine and happiness


48. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
Decanting
Orgy-Porgy
Decanting


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

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50. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'Suffer the children'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.