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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What does Soma symbolize?
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Because she slept with their husbands

2. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Violent Passion Surrogate
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Orgy-Porgy

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

4. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Encouraged

5. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He writes a poem about solitude

6. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Falkland Islands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Orgy-Porgy
The Director

7. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Orgy-Porgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Five

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

9. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Helmholtz Watson
Both feel alienated from World State society
To bring rain
The D.H.C.

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

11. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
She is horrified
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
The Falkland Islands

12. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

13. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Four months
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Tomakin
Encouraged

14. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
John
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

15. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
New Mexico

16. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
To bring rain

17. 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.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'A gramme is better than a damn'

18. What does Soma symbolize?
Bernard Marx
He writes a poem about solitude
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

19. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Excessive soma intake
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
The Falkland Islands

20. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Tomakin
Both feel alienated from World State society
Orgy-Porgy

21. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Britian
His physique
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. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
The D.H.C.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Soma

23. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Bokanovsky Process
John
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

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

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

26. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Excessive soma intake
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
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

27. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Excessive soma intake
Britian
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because she slept with their husbands

28. What is the motto of the World State?
'Suffer the children'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Community. Identity. Stability.

29. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Both feel alienated from World State society
Khaki

30. How many main castes are there?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
Five
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

31. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Excessive soma intake
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

32. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
John
New Mexico
He writes a poem about solitude
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

33. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
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.

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

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

36. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Falkland Islands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Britian
Four months

37. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
John
'Suffer the children'

38. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
He conducted scientific experiments
Bernard Marx
His physique
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

39. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He whips himself

40. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Soma
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director

41. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Soma

42. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Bernard Marx
Decanting
Both feel alienated from World State society
Because she slept with their husbands

43. Who is John's father?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The D.H.C.
Machinery and medicine and happiness

44. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Because she slept with their husbands
Helmholtz Watson
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified

45. 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.'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Helmholtz Watson
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

46. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
With an orgy
The D.H.C.
'Suffer the children'

47. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
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.
The Bokanovsky Process
Four months

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

49. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

50. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Falkland Islands