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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
His physique
'Suffer the children'
Soma
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

3. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
New Mexico
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Orgy-Porgy
Decanting

4. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Decanting
A society of Alphas is unworkable
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director

5. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Decanting
New Mexico
Soma
The Director

6. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Both feel alienated from World State society
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate

7. How many main castes are there?
Violent Passion Surrogate
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He conducted scientific experiments
Five

8. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
John

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

10. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin
Excessive soma intake
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

11. How many main castes are there?
He whips himself
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Five
Soma

12. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
The Director

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

14. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Decanting
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

15. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
New Mexico
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

16. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Epsilons
He conducted scientific experiments
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

17. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Tomakin
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Bernard Marx

18. What color do delta babies always wear?
She is horrified
Khaki
Bernard Marx
Tomakin

19. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified
With an orgy

20. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
He whips himself
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
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.

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

22. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Orgy-Porgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He conducted scientific experiments

23. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Director

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

25. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy
Bernard Marx
Machinery and medicine and happiness

26. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Orgy-Porgy
The D.H.C.
He writes a poem about solitude
He whips himself

27. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Epsilons
Bernard Marx
Community. Identity. Stability.
He whips himself

28. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

29. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The D.H.C.
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Falkland Islands
Helmholtz Watson

30. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
She is horrified

31. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Excessive soma intake
Helmholtz Watson
With an orgy

32. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Four months
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
He whips himself

33. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
The D.H.C.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Violent Passion Surrogate

34. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Bernard Marx
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

35. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He conducted scientific experiments
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

36. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He whips himself

37. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson

38. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
To bring rain
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons
New Mexico

39. 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 Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

40. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The D.H.C.

41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months
To bring rain
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

42. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

43. What was the first book that John read as a child?
New Mexico
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

44. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His physique
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged
Epsilons

45. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Violent Passion Surrogate
He whips himself

46. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Community. Identity. Stability.
To bring rain
His physique
The Bokanovsky Process

47. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Decanting
The Director
New Mexico
Five

48. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

50. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Five
Four months
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director