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?

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2. 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.'
Tomakin
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
He whips himself
Helmholtz Watson


3. 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
Bernard Marx
He conducted scientific experiments
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


4. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
'Suffer the children'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


5. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
His physique
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Five
New Mexico


6. Who is John's father?
To bring rain
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Encouraged
The D.H.C.


7. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
To bring rain
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness


8. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Decanting
Five
The Director
His physique


9. How many main castes are there?
Five
She is horrified
Because she slept with their husbands
Khaki


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

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

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

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13. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The Falkland Islands
His physique
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons


14. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
'Suffer the children'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


15. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
He conducted scientific experiments
Both feel alienated from World State society
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Tomakin


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

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17. What was the first book that John read as a child?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Community. Identity. Stability.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


18. What does Soma symbolize?
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


19. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


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

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

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

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23. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
John
Decanting
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
With an orgy


24. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Soma
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


25. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
His physique
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
New Mexico


26. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
He conducted scientific experiments
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


27. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'Suffer the children'


28. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
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.
Because she slept with their husbands


29. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The Director
His physique
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate


30. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Helmholtz Watson
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


31. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
His physique
She is horrified
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
New Mexico


32. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Khaki
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Bokanovsky Process


33. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
With an orgy
Soma


34. Where does Brave New World take place?
Excessive soma intake
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
Britian


35. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
With an orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Soma


36. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Soma
The Director
She is horrified


37. What does Soma symbolize?
With an orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands


38. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Britian
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


39. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Four months
To bring rain
Soma


40. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Epsilons
The D.H.C.
Bernard Marx


41. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Five
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director


42. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Helmholtz Watson
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


43. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'Suffer the children'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable


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

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

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46. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John
The Director
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


47. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Community. Identity. Stability.
New Mexico
He whips himself


48. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The D.H.C.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.


49. How many main castes are there?
The Bokanovsky Process
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Five


50. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process
The Director
New Mexico