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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Bernard Marx
His physique
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

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

3. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Encouraged
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The D.H.C.
He writes a poem about solitude

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

5. How many main castes are there?
John
Five
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'

6. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The Falkland Islands
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Director

7. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
His physique
Encouraged

8. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
She is horrified
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
He whips himself

9. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Encouraged
Both feel alienated from World State society
He conducted scientific experiments
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

10. How many main castes are there?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Five
With an orgy
Epsilons

11. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The D.H.C.
The Director
Decanting

12. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Violent Passion Surrogate
John
Violent Passion Surrogate

13. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Britian

14. Where does Brave New World take place?
He whips himself
Five
Britian
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

15. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Britian
She is horrified
He whips himself
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

16. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Encouraged
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
John

17. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Epsilons
Four months
With an orgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

18. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
Decanting
To bring rain

19. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Director
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin

20. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
New Mexico
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Falkland Islands
Decanting

21. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
John
The Bokanovsky Process
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

22. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Epsilons
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He conducted scientific experiments

23. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

24. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

25. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

26. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Khaki
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands

27. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He conducted scientific experiments
The Bokanovsky Process
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

28. What is the motto of the World State?
Five
Community. Identity. Stability.
Violent Passion Surrogate
Excessive soma intake

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

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

31. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
New Mexico
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Epsilons
Machinery and medicine and happiness

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

33. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
John
Encouraged

34. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.
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.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

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

37. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Because she slept with their husbands
He whips himself
Tomakin
He writes a poem about solitude

38. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He conducted scientific experiments

39. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Decanting
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
Four months

40. Who is John's father?
'Suffer the children'
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.
Community. Identity. Stability.

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

42. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Violent Passion Surrogate
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The D.H.C.
Soma

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

44. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
She is horrified
Tomakin
Machinery and medicine and happiness

45. 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
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.
Orgy-Porgy

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

47. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate

48. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Falkland Islands
Bernard Marx
He writes a poem about solitude

49. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Epsilons

50. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands