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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Falkland Islands
She is horrified

3. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
His physique
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
John

4. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
With an orgy
He whips himself

5. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Four months
He conducted scientific experiments
She is horrified
Excessive soma intake

6. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The D.H.C.
Because she slept with their husbands
She is horrified
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

7. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

8. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He writes a poem about solitude
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His physique

9. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Both feel alienated from World State society
He writes a poem about solitude

10. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

11. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Falkland Islands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Director

12. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Decanting
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
She is horrified
Community. Identity. Stability.

13. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Four months

14. What is the motto of the World State?
The Director
Khaki
Community. Identity. Stability.
Excessive soma intake

15. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Five
Encouraged

16. How many main castes are there?
Five
The Director
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

17. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Community. Identity. Stability.
He writes a poem about solitude

18. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Khaki
Four months
Encouraged
He writes a poem about solitude

19. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He conducted scientific experiments
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

20. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The Falkland Islands
Decanting
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki

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

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

23. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
The Bokanovsky Process
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
With an orgy

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

25. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Decanting
She is horrified
With an orgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

27. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
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 Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Bernard Marx

28. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Five
Both feel alienated from World State society

29. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

30. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The D.H.C.
Tomakin
John
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

31. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Decanting
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Encouraged

32. What does Soma symbolize?
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.
Khaki
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

33. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

34. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
The D.H.C.
He whips himself
Khaki

35. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
The Director
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

36. How many main castes are there?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Tomakin
Five
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.

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

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

39. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process
She is horrified
Orgy-Porgy

40. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Britian
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

41. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
The Director
To bring rain
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months

42. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Falkland Islands
Both feel alienated from World State society

43. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Britian
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

44. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Epsilons
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.

45. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Britian
The Director
The Falkland Islands
Bernard Marx

46. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Falkland Islands

47. What color do delta babies always wear?
Four months
The D.H.C.
Khaki
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

48. What color do delta babies always wear?
The D.H.C.
Encouraged
Khaki
The Director

49. Where does Brave New World take place?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Britian
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

50. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified