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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
The D.H.C.

2. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director
Four months
Because she slept with their husbands

3. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Soma
Five
She is horrified
Epsilons

4. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Four months

5. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
The Falkland Islands
Helmholtz Watson
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

6. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Bernard Marx
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

7. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
His physique
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He whips himself
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

8. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Helmholtz Watson
His physique
Four months

9. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Falkland Islands
'Suffer the children'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months

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

11. How many main castes are there?
Britian
Bernard Marx
Violent Passion Surrogate
Five

12. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Violent Passion Surrogate
Khaki

13. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting
Helmholtz Watson
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

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

15. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
With an orgy
Epsilons
Machinery and medicine and happiness

16. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The Bokanovsky Process
His physique
Khaki
Community. Identity. Stability.

17. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands

18. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
To bring rain
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

20. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director

21. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin
She is horrified
Five

22. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Because she slept with their husbands
Both feel alienated from World State society
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Encouraged

23. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Director
Decanting
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
With an orgy

24. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
To bring rain
Epsilons
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

25. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Bernard Marx
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'Suffer the children'

26. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
With an orgy
The Falkland Islands

27. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Four months
Bernard Marx

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

29. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
'Suffer the children'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian
Both feel alienated from World State society

30. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
'Suffer the children'
Tomakin
To bring rain
Five

31. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Soma
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson
Encouraged

32. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Four months
Helmholtz Watson
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

33. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Encouraged
The Director
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

34. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
The Director
The Falkland Islands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

35. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
The Bokanovsky Process
John
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.
Four months

36. What is the motto of the World State?
He writes a poem about solitude
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Four months

37. What was the first book that John read as a child?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Helmholtz Watson
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

38. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Helmholtz Watson
She is horrified

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

40. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The D.H.C.
The Bokanovsky Process
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

41. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Tomakin

42. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

43. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Soma
The Falkland Islands
Khaki

44. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy

45. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
He whips himself

46. What color do delta babies always wear?
John
New Mexico
Tomakin
Khaki

47. 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.'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Helmholtz Watson
Soma
He writes a poem about solitude

48. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because she slept with their husbands
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

49. How many main castes are there?
Decanting
Five
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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