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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What was the first book that John read as a child?






2. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






3. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






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


5. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






6. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






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


8. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






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


10. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






11. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






12. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?






13. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






14. What is the motto of the World State?






15. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






16. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






17. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?






18. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?






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


20. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






21. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






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.'






23. What was the first book that John read as a child?






24. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






25. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?






26. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






27. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






28. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






29. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?






30. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






31. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






32. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?






33. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






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


35. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






36. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






37. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






38. What is the motto of the World State?






39. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






40. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?






41. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






42. How many main castes are there?






43. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






44. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






45. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






46. What color do delta babies always wear?






47. 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.'






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


49. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






50. What color do delta babies always wear?