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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the motto of the World State?






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






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


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






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






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






7. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






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


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






10. What is the motto of the World State?






11. How does the Solidarity Service end?






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






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


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


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






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






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






18. What does Soma symbolize?






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






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






21. How does the Solidarity Service end?






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






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






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






25. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






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






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


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






29. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






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






31. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






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






33. What color do delta babies always wear?






34. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






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






36. What does Soma symbolize?






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






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






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






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


41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






42. Where does Brave New World take place?






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






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






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






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


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


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






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






50. Who is John's father?