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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Bernard Marx
Tomakin

2. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Falkland Islands
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin

3. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Encouraged
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

4. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The D.H.C.
The Falkland Islands
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He conducted scientific experiments

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

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

7. How many main castes are there?
Five
Four months
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Director

8. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Helmholtz Watson
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Decanting
Machinery and medicine and happiness

9. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki

10. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself
John

11. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

12. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Decanting

13. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'Suffer the children'
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake

14. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
He conducted scientific experiments
The D.H.C.
Epsilons
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

15. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

16. How many main castes are there?
Decanting
He whips himself
Tomakin
Five

17. 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 D.H.C.
The Falkland Islands
Britian

18. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Epsilons
With an orgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

19. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
She is horrified
Epsilons
Bernard Marx
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

20. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Violent Passion Surrogate

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.'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Helmholtz Watson
He whips himself

22. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Machinery and medicine and happiness

23. What color do delta babies always wear?
Because she slept with their husbands
Khaki
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Bernard Marx

24. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
John
The Falkland Islands
Because she slept with their husbands

25. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Four months
Encouraged
He whips himself
The Bokanovsky Process

26. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Director
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Excessive soma intake

27. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society
New Mexico
He whips himself

28. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Four months
Five
The Falkland Islands

29. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
She is horrified
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

31. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The Bokanovsky Process
'A gramme is better than a damn'
He writes a poem about solitude
Helmholtz Watson

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

33. How does the Solidarity Service end?
He whips himself
Violent Passion Surrogate
With an orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

34. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Helmholtz Watson
'Suffer the children'

35. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Soma
The Falkland Islands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Community. Identity. Stability.

36. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
To bring rain
The Director

37. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'Suffer the children'

38. What is the motto of the World State?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Decanting
Four months
Community. Identity. Stability.

39. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Tomakin
New Mexico

40. What was the first book that John read as a child?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

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

42. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Soma
John

43. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He writes a poem about solitude

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

45. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Bernard Marx
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He whips himself

46. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Excessive soma intake
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
'Suffer the children'

47. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He writes a poem about solitude
The Bokanovsky Process

48. 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.
Britian
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

49. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
His physique

50. What was the first book that John read as a child?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'Suffer the children'
He conducted scientific experiments
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo