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Trivia: Brave New World

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

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






3. What color do delta babies always wear?






4. What does Soma symbolize?






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






6. Who is John's father?






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






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






9. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






10. How many main castes are there?






11. Where does Brave New World take place?






12. How does the Solidarity Service end?






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

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






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






16. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






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






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






19. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






20. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






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






22. 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.'






23. What color do delta babies always wear?






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






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

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26. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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






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






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






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






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






32. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






33. 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.'






34. Who is John's father?






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






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






37. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






38. What is the motto of the World State?






39. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






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






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






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






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






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






45. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






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

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






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






49. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






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