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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What color do delta babies always wear?
Five
Britian
Khaki
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

2. What does Soma symbolize?
The Director
John
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The D.H.C.

3. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Epsilons
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

4. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A society of Alphas is unworkable

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

6. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Decanting
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Soma

7. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Tomakin
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Bokanovsky Process

8. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
The Falkland Islands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
To bring rain
The Director

9. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Because she slept with their husbands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Encouraged
Tomakin

10. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Falkland Islands

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

12. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Decanting
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Epsilons
He conducted scientific experiments

13. Who is John's father?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The D.H.C.
To bring rain
Both feel alienated from World State society

14. 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
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He conducted scientific experiments

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

16. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Epsilons
She is horrified
Community. Identity. Stability.

17. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
His physique
He conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain

18. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Decanting
Both feel alienated from World State society
Soma

19. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Soma
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process

20. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
He whips himself
Encouraged

21. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Orgy-Porgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Epsilons

22. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
The Bokanovsky Process
To bring rain
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Tomakin

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

24. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Both feel alienated from World State society
Bernard Marx
Orgy-Porgy

25. 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.'
The Director
Helmholtz Watson
Khaki
Decanting

26. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Helmholtz Watson
John
'Suffer the children'

27. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Community. Identity. Stability.
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.

28. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Helmholtz Watson
Decanting
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He conducted scientific experiments

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

30. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Epsilons
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

31. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Tomakin
He writes a poem about solitude
Bernard Marx

32. Where does Brave New World take place?
With an orgy
Britian
Encouraged
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

33. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The Director
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

34. How does the Solidarity Service end?
The D.H.C.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The D.H.C.
With an orgy

35. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Britian
'Suffer the children'
He whips himself
He conducted scientific experiments

36. How many main castes are there?
His physique
The Director
Excessive soma intake
Five

37. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Falkland Islands
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Bokanovsky Process

38. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
She is horrified
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

39. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Bokanovsky Process
Excessive soma intake
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

40. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
John
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

41. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands

42. What was the first book that John read as a child?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Falkland Islands
With an orgy

43. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Orgy-Porgy
New Mexico
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

44. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Director
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society

45. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Bernard Marx
Decanting

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

47. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
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.
The Bokanovsky Process
Britian

48. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
'A gramme is better than a damn'

49. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
'Suffer the children'
To bring rain

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