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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

2. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
With an orgy
Britian
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

3. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Bernard Marx

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?
Excessive soma intake
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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

6. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
She is horrified
He whips himself
The Director

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?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Both feel alienated from World State society
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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

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?
His physique
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director

11. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
With an orgy
With an orgy
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process

12. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
She is horrified
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process

13. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months
Bernard Marx

14. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Four months
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John

15. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
Helmholtz Watson

16. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Helmholtz Watson
His physique
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Director

17. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
John
Britian

18. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
He writes a poem about solitude
Because she slept with their husbands
To bring rain

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?
She is horrified
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified
To bring rain

21. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Violent Passion Surrogate
Helmholtz Watson
Encouraged
The D.H.C.

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.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
To bring rain
Helmholtz Watson
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

23. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
With an orgy
He whips himself

24. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Both feel alienated from World State society
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Violent Passion Surrogate
'A gramme is better than a damn'

25. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Khaki
Decanting
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

26. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He whips himself
Violent Passion Surrogate

27. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Britian
Tomakin
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

28. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
New Mexico
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because she slept with their husbands

29. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He writes a poem about solitude

30. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
The Bokanovsky Process
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.

31. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Five
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
Orgy-Porgy

32. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
To bring rain
Soma
He whips himself
Epsilons

33. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Five
John
Britian
Epsilons

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

35. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Five

36. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
She is horrified
To bring rain
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

37. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His physique
Violent Passion Surrogate

38. What is the motto of the World State?
Four months
Encouraged
Bernard Marx
Community. Identity. Stability.

39. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain

40. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Britian
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Bernard Marx
Community. Identity. Stability.

41. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Violent Passion Surrogate
His physique
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

42. How many main castes are there?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Five

43. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'
Encouraged
Four months

44. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
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.
Orgy-Porgy
John
Excessive soma intake

45. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Violent Passion Surrogate
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 Director
The Bokanovsky Process

46. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands
'Suffer the children'
Khaki

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.'
Bernard Marx
Helmholtz Watson
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

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

49. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Community. Identity. Stability.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He whips himself

50. What color do delta babies always wear?
Orgy-Porgy
Khaki
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He conducted scientific experiments