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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Soma
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
With an orgy

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

3. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Excessive soma intake
Orgy-Porgy

4. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
His physique
The Falkland Islands

5. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Britian
Four months
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

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

7. What color do delta babies always wear?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Khaki
His physique
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

8. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Khaki
She is horrified
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
New Mexico

9. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Khaki
Bernard Marx
Both feel alienated from World State society

10. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He whips himself

11. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
She is horrified
He whips himself
Four months
The Falkland Islands

12. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Britian
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness

14. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Four months
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Excessive soma intake

15. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Orgy-Porgy
The Falkland Islands
Five
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

16. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He conducted scientific experiments
Bernard Marx

17. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
He writes a poem about solitude
His physique
Because she slept with their husbands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

18. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
With an orgy
Soma
To bring rain

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

20. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Khaki
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

21. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Epsilons

22. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
'Suffer the children'
Khaki
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Decanting

23. Who is John's father?
Violent Passion Surrogate
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
Because she slept with their husbands

24. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Decanting

25. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Five
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Tomakin
Orgy-Porgy

26. Where does Brave New World take place?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Director
Encouraged
Britian

27. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Bernard Marx
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson

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

29. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Bernard Marx
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
The Bokanovsky Process

30. How does the Solidarity Service end?
To bring rain
With an orgy
His physique
'Suffer the children'

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

32. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He writes a poem about solitude
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John

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

34. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
New Mexico
The Bokanovsky Process

35. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
'Suffer the children'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

37. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
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 Bokanovsky Process
His physique
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

38. 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
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
His physique
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

39. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
New Mexico
Violent Passion Surrogate
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director

40. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Five
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Four months
Because she slept with their husbands

41. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
He conducted scientific experiments
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Four months

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

43. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Khaki
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

44. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Four months
Community. Identity. Stability.
Decanting
John

45. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
His physique
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.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

46. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Britian
Tomakin

47. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Tomakin
Machinery and medicine and happiness
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.
Helmholtz Watson

48. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Khaki
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
He conducted scientific experiments
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

49. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
'Suffer the children'
The D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society
'Suffer the children'

50. Who is John's father?
The Director
The D.H.C.
Bernard Marx
Four months