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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
'Suffer the children'
Encouraged
His physique
Decanting

2. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Four months

3. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
With an orgy
Four months
He writes a poem about solitude
The Bokanovsky Process

4. What is the motto of the World State?
Britian
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Community. Identity. Stability.
Orgy-Porgy

5. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Excessive soma intake
He writes a poem about solitude
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness

6. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands
The D.H.C.

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

8. What does Soma symbolize?
Khaki
His physique
She is horrified
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

9. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Bernard Marx
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Decanting
Because she slept with their husbands

10. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Encouraged
He conducted scientific experiments
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
His physique

11. 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.
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting

12. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The D.H.C.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

13. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Epsilons
Orgy-Porgy
The Falkland Islands

14. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Encouraged
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

15. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Britian
Bernard Marx

16. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
To bring rain
Epsilons
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director

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

18. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

19. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Four months

20. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Orgy-Porgy
Excessive soma intake

21. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
He conducted scientific experiments
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
New Mexico

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

23. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because she slept with their husbands
Encouraged
A society of Alphas is unworkable

24. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Five
Excessive soma intake

25. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Helmholtz Watson
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

26. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Encouraged
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months
Khaki

27. Where does Brave New World take place?
The Falkland Islands
Both feel alienated from World State society
Britian
The Falkland Islands

28. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
New Mexico
Both feel alienated from World State society
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

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

30. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Helmholtz Watson
Machinery and medicine and happiness
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

31. What does Soma symbolize?
Khaki
Epsilons
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

33. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Encouraged
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
Soma

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

35. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
New Mexico
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

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

38. Where does Brave New World take place?
To bring rain
Britian
New Mexico
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

39. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Helmholtz Watson
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

40. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself
New Mexico
The D.H.C.

41. What was the first book that John read as a child?
'Suffer the children'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
John

42. How does the Solidarity Service end?
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

43. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Five
The Director
Excessive soma intake
He conducted scientific experiments

44. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Because she slept with their husbands
New Mexico
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Community. Identity. Stability.

45. 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.'
Encouraged
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Helmholtz Watson
He writes a poem about solitude

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

47. Who is John's father?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He conducted scientific experiments
The D.H.C.
Excessive soma intake

48. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged
Britian
Bernard Marx

49. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
He whips himself
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director

50. How many main castes are there?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Five
He conducted scientific experiments