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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Falkland Islands
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director

2. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
With an orgy
He conducted scientific experiments

3. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
She is horrified
He whips himself
Epsilons
To bring rain

4. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Soma
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Bernard Marx

5. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
A society of Alphas is unworkable
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He conducted scientific experiments
He writes a poem about solitude

6. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
To bring rain
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons
Britian

7. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The D.H.C.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director

8. How does the Solidarity Service end?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He whips himself
With an orgy
Orgy-Porgy

9. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orgy-Porgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

10. 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
Khaki
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

11. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
To bring rain
Because she slept with their husbands

12. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
John
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
New Mexico

13. 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.'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His physique
Decanting
Helmholtz Watson

14. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Tomakin
Both feel alienated from World State society
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

15. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director

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

17. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons

18. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Decanting
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons

19. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Decanting
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because she slept with their husbands
New Mexico

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

21. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
To bring rain
The Director
Orgy-Porgy
Five

22. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

23. 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.'
Helmholtz Watson
Four months
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because she slept with their husbands

24. How many main castes are there?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Five
New Mexico
Encouraged

25. What does Soma symbolize?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
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 powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

26. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
Khaki
Orgy-Porgy
Both feel alienated from World State society

27. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments

28. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Tomakin
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Bernard Marx

29. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Because she slept with their husbands
Both feel alienated from World State society
He whips himself
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

30. What is the motto of the World State?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

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

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

33. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Tomakin
She is horrified
Five
The Bokanovsky Process

34. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

35. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy
New Mexico

36. Where does Brave New World take place?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Bernard Marx
Britian
Both feel alienated from World State society

37. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands
John

38. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons
Orgy-Porgy
Excessive soma intake

39. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He writes a poem about solitude
Because she slept with their husbands
'Suffer the children'

40. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
She is horrified
Excessive soma intake
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

41. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His physique
Britian

42. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Khaki

43. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The D.H.C.
He conducted scientific experiments
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process

44. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Decanting

45. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
The Bokanovsky Process
The Director
Soma
He whips himself

46. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
His physique
Violent Passion Surrogate
Five
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

47. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Helmholtz Watson
He writes a poem about solitude
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

48. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Bokanovsky Process
Tomakin
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

49. What was the first book that John read as a child?
John
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Because she slept with their husbands
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

50. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Epsilons
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Falkland Islands
With an orgy