Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Violent Passion Surrogate


2. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
To bring rain
Tomakin
He conducted scientific experiments


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

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4. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
A society of Alphas is unworkable
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


5. What was the first book that John read as a child?
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


6. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


7. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Excessive soma intake


8. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Excessive soma intake


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

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10. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


11. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
She is horrified
Violent Passion Surrogate
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


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

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13. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
With an orgy
The Director
New Mexico
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


14. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Community. Identity. Stability.
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


15. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Soma
Excessive soma intake
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


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

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17. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Tomakin
Epsilons


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

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19. Who is John's father?
Encouraged
Excessive soma intake
The D.H.C.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


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

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21. What does Soma symbolize?
Orgy-Porgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Britian
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


22. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Encouraged
Both feel alienated from World State society
The D.H.C.


23. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Khaki
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


24. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Orgy-Porgy
To bring rain


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
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Tomakin
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


26. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


27. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Tomakin
Epsilons
Britian
With an orgy


28. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Bokanovsky Process
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Bernard Marx


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


30. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
Soma
The Bokanovsky Process
Four months


31. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Both feel alienated from World State society
To bring rain
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


32. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


33. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Bokanovsky Process
New Mexico
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


34. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Epsilons
New Mexico
Orgy-Porgy


35. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
'Suffer the children'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Violent Passion Surrogate
John


36. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged


37. How many main castes are there?
'Suffer the children'
The Bokanovsky Process
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Five


38. Who is John's father?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
The D.H.C.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


39. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
The Director
Helmholtz Watson
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


40. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director
'Suffer the children'
New Mexico


41. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
He writes a poem about solitude
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


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

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43. 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.'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself
Soma
Helmholtz Watson


44. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
He whips himself
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Four months


45. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Khaki
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson


46. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Director
With an orgy
Four months


47. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
His physique
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
To bring rain


48. Where does Brave New World take place?
'Suffer the children'
He conducted scientific experiments
Britian
To bring rain


49. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Both feel alienated from World State society
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


50. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Community. Identity. Stability.
He writes a poem about solitude
Both feel alienated from World State society
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.