Trivia: Brave New World

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


2. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness


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


4. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


5. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The Falkland Islands
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Excessive soma intake
Both feel alienated from World State society


6. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Orgy-Porgy
Soma
He conducted scientific experiments


7. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Britian
Both feel alienated from World State society
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Tomakin


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


9. 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.'
Helmholtz Watson
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Both feel alienated from World State society


10. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


11. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Five
Because she slept with their husbands


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


13. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Soma
Helmholtz Watson
With an orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


14. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Excessive soma intake
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


15. How does the Solidarity Service end?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Community. Identity. Stability.
With an orgy


16. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


17. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He whips himself
She is horrified


18. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons


19. Where does Brave New World take place?
He conducted scientific experiments
Epsilons
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Britian


20. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
New Mexico
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique
The D.H.C.


21. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Excessive soma intake
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
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.


22. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He whips himself
Epsilons
Because she slept with their husbands


23. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
With an orgy
Soma
New Mexico


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


25. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
With an orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The D.H.C.


26. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
With an orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


27. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
The Director
He whips himself
With an orgy
She is horrified


28. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
With an orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


29. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His physique
Four months
The Falkland Islands


30. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Falkland Islands
John
The Bokanovsky Process


31. What color do delta babies always wear?
He conducted scientific experiments
Five
Khaki
The D.H.C.


32. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Epsilons
With an orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


33. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Orgy-Porgy
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


34. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Excessive soma intake


35. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Orgy-Porgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Decanting


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


37. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Because she slept with their husbands
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John
Tomakin


38. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Because she slept with their husbands
Decanting
Excessive soma intake
He conducted scientific experiments


39. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process


40. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Excessive soma intake
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


41. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Excessive soma intake
Machinery and medicine and happiness


42. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake
The Bokanovsky Process
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


43. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
New Mexico
Encouraged
Epsilons
Violent Passion Surrogate


44. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society


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


46. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
'A gramme is better than a damn'


47. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His physique


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


49. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Britian
Both feel alienated from World State society
Tomakin
He writes a poem about solitude


50. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Encouraged
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest