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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Four months
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
John

2. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Because she slept with their husbands
He whips himself
She is horrified

3. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

4. What color do delta babies always wear?
He conducted scientific experiments
Five
Khaki
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

5. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
He whips himself
Encouraged
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

6. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

7. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Orgy-Porgy
Because she slept with their husbands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

8. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Orgy-Porgy
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

9. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
John
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process

10. How does the Solidarity Service end?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'Suffer the children'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
With an orgy

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

12. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
She is horrified
Tomakin

13. What does Soma symbolize?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Four months
Helmholtz Watson
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

14. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Five
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Four months
Excessive soma intake

15. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Four months
New Mexico
He whips himself
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

16. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
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.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Epsilons

17. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

18. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John
Britian

19. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Britian
Decanting
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons

20. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
New Mexico
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki

21. How many main castes are there?
The D.H.C.
Five
The Bokanovsky Process
He writes a poem about solitude

22. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Orgy-Porgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

23. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Bernard Marx
She is horrified

24. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

26. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
'Suffer the children'
Decanting
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Encouraged

27. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He conducted scientific experiments

28. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Khaki
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.
Four months

29. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Both feel alienated from World State society
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

31. What does Soma symbolize?
Five
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Director
He writes a poem about solitude

32. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Five
He whips himself
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director

33. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
He conducted scientific experiments
Five
Orgy-Porgy
To bring rain

34. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Both feel alienated from World State society
Decanting
Soma

35. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
He conducted scientific experiments
Encouraged
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Machinery and medicine and happiness

36. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
'Suffer the children'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
His physique
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

38. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The Director
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Violent Passion Surrogate
'Suffer the children'

39. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Soma
Helmholtz Watson

40. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He writes a poem about solitude

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

42. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Soma
New Mexico
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Both feel alienated from World State society

43. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
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.

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

45. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Excessive soma intake
The Director
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Khaki

46. 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.'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
With an orgy
Helmholtz Watson
Violent Passion Surrogate

47. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Decanting

48. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
His physique
Bernard Marx
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.

49. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Encouraged
The D.H.C.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

50. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
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.
Britian
The Bokanovsky Process