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Trivia: Brave New World

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






2. Where does Brave New World take place?






3. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






4. What is the motto of the World State?






5. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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


7. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






8. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






9. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






10. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






11. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






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






13. How many main castes are there?






14. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






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






16. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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






18. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






19. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






20. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






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


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






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






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






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






26. What does Soma symbolize?






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






28. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






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


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






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






32. How does the Solidarity Service end?






33. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






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






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






36. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






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






38. What color do delta babies always wear?






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






40. What is the motto of the World State?






41. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?






42. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






43. 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.'






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


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






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


47. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






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






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






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