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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Soma
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Encouraged

2. Where does Brave New World take place?
The Bokanovsky Process
Violent Passion Surrogate
John
Britian

3. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands
She is horrified

4. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate

5. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Community. Identity. Stability.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

6. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Tomakin
Britian
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John

7. What is the motto of the World State?
New Mexico
Community. Identity. Stability.
'Suffer the children'
Britian

8. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
She is horrified
The Director
Orgy-Porgy

9. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
She is horrified
Decanting
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake

10. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The D.H.C.
Decanting
Violent Passion Surrogate
Excessive soma intake

11. How does the Solidarity Service end?
To bring rain
Soma
With an orgy
Orgy-Porgy

12. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Decanting
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'

13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Excessive soma intake
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

14. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He whips himself

15. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
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.
Excessive soma intake
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

16. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His physique
Orgy-Porgy

17. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The Falkland Islands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

19. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Four months
With an orgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

20. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Excessive soma intake
Both feel alienated from World State society
Four months
With an orgy

21. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Khaki
The Bokanovsky Process
John
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

22. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Britian
To bring rain
With an orgy
Soma

23. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
'Suffer the children'
The Falkland Islands
He writes a poem about solitude
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

24. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director
He whips himself
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

25. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

27. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
'A gramme is better than a damn'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The D.H.C.

28. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

29. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He writes a poem about solitude
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Falkland Islands

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

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

32. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Five
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

33. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Four months
Excessive soma intake

34. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Excessive soma intake
Epsilons
The Director

35. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
The Bokanovsky Process
To bring rain
Community. Identity. Stability.

36. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The Falkland Islands
She is horrified
His physique
John

37. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Falkland Islands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Violent Passion Surrogate

38. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
John
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Falkland Islands

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

40. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
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.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake

41. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
With an orgy

42. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Bokanovsky Process
'Suffer the children'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
New Mexico

43. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
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.

44. How many main castes are there?
Bernard Marx
The D.H.C.
Five
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

45. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process

46. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Orgy-Porgy
Tomakin
New Mexico
Soma

47. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

48. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
She is horrified
The Bokanovsky Process
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

49. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
John
Encouraged
He conducted scientific experiments
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

50. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Khaki
Tomakin