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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What color do delta babies always wear?






2. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






3. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






4. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






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


6. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






7. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






8. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






9. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?






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


11. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?






12. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






13. What color do delta babies always wear?






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


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


16. What is the motto of the World State?






17. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?






18. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






19. 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.'






20. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






21. Where does Brave New World take place?






22. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






23. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






24. What was the first book that John read as a child?






25. Who is John's father?






26. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






27. How many main castes are there?






28. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






29. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






30. 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.'






31. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






32. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






33. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






34. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?






35. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?






36. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






37. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






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


39. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






40. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






41. What was the first book that John read as a child?






42. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






43. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






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


45. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






46. How does the Solidarity Service end?






47. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






48. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






49. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






50. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?