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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Four months
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude

2. What does Soma symbolize?
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Director
Decanting

3. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Director
She is horrified

4. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
She is horrified
Orgy-Porgy
Soma

5. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Epsilons
Tomakin
John
Violent Passion Surrogate

6. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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 Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

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

8. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
To bring rain
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Decanting
The Director

9. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His physique
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness

10. How many main castes are there?
'Suffer the children'
Five
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process

11. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Bokanovsky Process
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director

12. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
New Mexico
Machinery and medicine and happiness

13. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Tomakin
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

15. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Falkland Islands
Epsilons
Excessive soma intake
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

16. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
New Mexico
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Orgy-Porgy

17. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Epsilons
With an orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Epsilons

18. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
New Mexico
'Suffer the children'
He writes a poem about solitude
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

19. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
'Suffer the children'
He whips himself
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

20. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Epsilons
The Falkland Islands

21. 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.
Soma
The Falkland Islands
The Bokanovsky Process

22. 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.'
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
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

23. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
The Director
Four months
John

24. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
He whips himself
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
To bring rain

25. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons
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.
Both feel alienated from World State society

26. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Khaki
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

27. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
'Suffer the children'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'A gramme is better than a damn'

28. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He writes a poem about solitude

29. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Bernard Marx
His physique
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

31. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

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

33. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Encouraged
Britian
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

34. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Community. Identity. Stability.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The D.H.C.
Machinery and medicine and happiness

35. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
He whips himself
Tomakin
Bernard Marx
Four months

36. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
Decanting
She is horrified
To bring rain

37. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Britian

38. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Five
Four months
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate

39. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Bokanovsky Process
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

40. What color do delta babies always wear?
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.
Khaki
He writes a poem about solitude
Excessive soma intake

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

42. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude

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

44. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director

45. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Khaki
The D.H.C.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Four months

46. What is the motto of the World State?
His physique
Soma
Community. Identity. Stability.
Both feel alienated from World State society

47. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Community. Identity. Stability.
His physique
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

49. What does Soma symbolize?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake

50. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
He whips himself
Violent Passion Surrogate
Four months
'plenty of pleasant vices.'