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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
John
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

2. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Encouraged
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Britian

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

4. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
To bring rain
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director

5. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orgy-Porgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

6. What is the motto of the World State?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Community. Identity. Stability.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

7. How many main castes are there?
Khaki
Five
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

8. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Violent Passion Surrogate
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

9. 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.
He conducted scientific experiments
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

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

12. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged
The Director
Britian

13. What was the first book that John read as a child?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
He writes a poem about solitude
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

14. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because she slept with their husbands
Both feel alienated from World State society
'A gramme is better than a damn'

15. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Four months
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Encouraged

16. 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.'
With an orgy
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson
He conducted scientific experiments

17. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Tomakin
Tomakin
Because she slept with their husbands
'Suffer the children'

18. How does the Solidarity Service end?
The Director
Excessive soma intake
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
With an orgy

19. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
The Bokanovsky Process
Decanting
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

20. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director
Decanting

21. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He conducted scientific experiments
New Mexico
The Director

22. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
His physique
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He writes a poem about solitude
Five

23. 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
With an orgy
Khaki

24. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Both feel alienated from World State society
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.
With an orgy
John

25. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Decanting
Epsilons
He conducted scientific experiments
John

26. Where does Brave New World take place?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Britian
He conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain

27. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
He conducted scientific experiments
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A society of Alphas is unworkable

28. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Five
His physique
The Falkland Islands

29. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society

30. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
His physique
Because she slept with their husbands
Decanting
He whips himself

31. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Both feel alienated from World State society

32. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
Because she slept with their husbands

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

34. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Decanting
Encouraged
New Mexico

35. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
The Director
His physique
Khaki

36. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Falkland Islands
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

37. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Soma
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

38. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
To bring rain
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
She is horrified
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

39. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Epsilons
Four months

40. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Both feel alienated from World State society
Helmholtz Watson
She is horrified

41. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma
Orgy-Porgy
Five

42. What does Soma symbolize?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Director

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

44. What color do delta babies always wear?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Khaki
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Helmholtz Watson

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

46. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

48. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Epsilons
To bring rain
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

49. What color do delta babies always wear?
Decanting
Four months
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Khaki

50. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
He whips himself
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Four months
'plenty of pleasant vices.'