Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Encouraged
The D.H.C.
His physique
Soma


2. What does Soma symbolize?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Tomakin
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


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

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

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5. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Britian
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


6. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
The Director
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


7. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He whips himself
Orgy-Porgy
Epsilons


8. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He whips himself
Bernard Marx


9. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Machinery and medicine and happiness


10. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Khaki
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique
Tomakin


11. How does the Solidarity Service end?
'Suffer the children'
The Falkland Islands
With an orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


12. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
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.
Excessive soma intake
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


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

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14. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
He writes a poem about solitude
To bring rain
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The D.H.C.


15. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
Five
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


16. What color do delta babies always wear?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Khaki
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


17. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Encouraged
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He conducted scientific experiments


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

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19. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Director
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


20. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He writes a poem about solitude
Excessive soma intake


21. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
John
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.


22. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified
'A gramme is better than a damn'


23. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


24. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Encouraged
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He whips himself


25. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
With an orgy


26. Who is John's father?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.
She is horrified
Decanting


27. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake


28. What does Soma symbolize?
Orgy-Porgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
His physique
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


29. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Tomakin
The Director
Community. Identity. Stability.
Five


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

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31. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Orgy-Porgy
Khaki


32. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Five
She is horrified
The Director


33. 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 refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Community. Identity. Stability.
John


34. 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 Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson


35. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He whips himself
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


36. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Epsilons
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Five
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


37. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


38. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Orgy-Porgy
Five
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified


39. How many main castes are there?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Five
The Bokanovsky Process
'Suffer the children'


40. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He whips himself
Britian


41. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Orgy-Porgy
The Bokanovsky Process
Tomakin


42. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
John
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake


43. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
He whips himself
His physique
Because she slept with their husbands


44. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
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.
Tomakin
The D.H.C.
Four months


45. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Four months
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
A society of Alphas is unworkable


46. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
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.
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


47. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique
Bernard Marx
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


48. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Britian
Decanting
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


49. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Five
Helmholtz Watson
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


50. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Khaki
'Suffer the children'
With an orgy
'plenty of pleasant vices.'