Test your basic knowledge |

Trivia: Brave New World

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. After his return from the Reservation with the Savage - what event leads to Bernard's fall from social grace?


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






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


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






5. What color do delta babies always wear?






6. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






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






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


9. How does the Solidarity Service end?






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






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






12. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






13. How many main castes are there?






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






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


16. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?






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






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






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






20. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






21. 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.'






22. What color do delta babies always wear?






23. How does the Solidarity Service end?






24. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






25. What is the motto of the World State?






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






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


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


29. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






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


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






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






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


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


35. Who is John's father?






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






37. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






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


39. What is the motto of the World State?






40. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






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






42. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






43. How many main castes are there?






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






45. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






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






47. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






48. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






49. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






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