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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How many main castes are there?
The Falkland Islands
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Five

2. What does Soma symbolize?
Helmholtz Watson
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Machinery and medicine and happiness

3. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
He conducted scientific experiments
Tomakin
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate

4. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Tomakin
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director

5. What is the motto of the World State?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands
Community. Identity. Stability.

6. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Epsilons
The Director
Both feel alienated from World State society

7. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
He whips himself
New Mexico
Decanting
Encouraged

8. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
New Mexico
Tomakin

9. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
The Bokanovsky Process
His physique
'Suffer the children'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

10. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

11. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Five
He whips himself
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

12. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Epsilons
The Director
Helmholtz Watson
His physique

13. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Encouraged
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Both feel alienated from World State society

14. 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 Director
Helmholtz Watson
Britian
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

15. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He whips himself
The Falkland Islands
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

16. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Tomakin
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

17. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Falkland Islands
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because she slept with their husbands
Tomakin

18. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Britian
Bernard Marx
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

19. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Four months
Four months
He whips himself
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

20. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Encouraged

21. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Violent Passion Surrogate
His physique

22. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The Falkland Islands
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified

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

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

25. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Tomakin
New Mexico
The Director

26. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
He whips himself
He conducted scientific experiments
Britian
Encouraged

27. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
With an orgy
With an orgy

28. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
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.
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

30. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Orgy-Porgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain

31. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Britian
Soma
She is horrified
The Falkland Islands

32. What does Soma symbolize?
He writes a poem about solitude
A society of Alphas is unworkable
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

33. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'Suffer the children'
Five
Tomakin
The Bokanovsky Process

34. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Encouraged
His physique
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

35. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
With an orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Orgy-Porgy
Bernard Marx

36. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Community. Identity. Stability.

37. What was the first book that John read as a child?
With an orgy
The Director
Excessive soma intake
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

38. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The D.H.C.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Epsilons
Orgy-Porgy

39. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Excessive soma intake
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Soma

40. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
The Falkland Islands

41. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
'Suffer the children'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

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

44. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Four months
Bernard Marx
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.
'Suffer the children'

45. What color do delta babies always wear?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Tomakin
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Khaki

46. Where does Brave New World take place?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months
Britian
His physique

47. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Epsilons
To bring rain

48. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Khaki
Four months
Encouraged
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

49. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Decanting
New Mexico
Tomakin
The Falkland Islands

50. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Soma
He whips himself
He writes a poem about solitude
New Mexico