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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
He writes a poem about solitude
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson
The D.H.C.

2. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

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4. Where does Brave New World take place?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Britian
To bring rain
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

5. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
The Falkland Islands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
'A gramme is better than a damn'
New Mexico

7. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
He whips himself
To bring rain
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

8. 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
Violent Passion Surrogate
He whips himself
Excessive soma intake

9. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Violent Passion Surrogate
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He whips himself

10. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
His physique
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Four months

11. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
New Mexico
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

12. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Soma
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique
With an orgy

13. Where does Brave New World take place?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

14. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
He conducted scientific experiments
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.
To bring rain
John

15. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable

16. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
He conducted scientific experiments
The D.H.C.
To bring rain
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

17. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
The D.H.C.
He whips himself

18. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

19. 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.'
Orgy-Porgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Helmholtz Watson
He conducted scientific experiments

20. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
The D.H.C.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Britian

21. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
With an orgy
The Falkland Islands
She is horrified
He whips himself

22. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
He writes a poem about solitude
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Orgy-Porgy
He conducted scientific experiments

23. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

24. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
His physique
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because she slept with their husbands
Epsilons

25. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Falkland Islands
John
Tomakin

26. What was the first book that John read as a child?
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
To bring rain

27. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process
'Suffer the children'
New Mexico

28. What color do delta babies always wear?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Khaki

29. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
He whips himself
He writes a poem about solitude
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Five

30. Who is John's father?
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Helmholtz Watson
The D.H.C.

31. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Epsilons
Violent Passion Surrogate
His physique

32. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
His physique
She is horrified
Four months
Five

33. How many main castes are there?
His physique
Five
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

34. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
John
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake
Encouraged

35. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Soma
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

36. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Epsilons
Helmholtz Watson

37. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique
Bernard Marx
The Falkland Islands

38. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Four months
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He conducted scientific experiments

39. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
'Suffer the children'
Decanting

40. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Tomakin
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because she slept with their husbands

41. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Tomakin
She is horrified
Both feel alienated from World State society
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

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43. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Encouraged
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.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

44. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Tomakin
Violent Passion Surrogate
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

45. What is the motto of the World State?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Bokanovsky Process
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because she slept with their husbands

46. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Encouraged
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director

47. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Epsilons
Encouraged
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

48. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
He whips himself
Community. Identity. Stability.
Decanting
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

49. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Tomakin
New Mexico
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.
Machinery and medicine and happiness

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

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