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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Four months
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique
Epsilons

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

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

4. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Falkland Islands
The Director
Decanting
The Falkland Islands

5. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
He writes a poem about solitude
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

7. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Director
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate

8. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Because she slept with their husbands
Orgy-Porgy

9. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
His physique

10. What is the motto of the World State?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Community. Identity. Stability.

11. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
She is horrified
Four months
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

12. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Britian
Violent Passion Surrogate

13. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Encouraged
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Excessive soma intake

14. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

15. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because she slept with their husbands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

17. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
To bring rain
Both feel alienated from World State society
Violent Passion Surrogate

18. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process

19. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Decanting
Four months
The Falkland Islands

20. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
He writes a poem about solitude
Four months
The D.H.C.
The Director

21. What does Soma symbolize?
Community. Identity. Stability.
He writes a poem about solitude
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

22. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
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
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

23. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
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 Falkland Islands
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
With an orgy

24. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Encouraged
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

25. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Both feel alienated from World State society
'Suffer the children'
Orgy-Porgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable

26. Where does Brave New World take place?
She is horrified
Britian
Decanting
Four months

27. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
He conducted scientific experiments
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

28. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
With an orgy
His physique
Epsilons

29. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The D.H.C.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

30. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

31. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Encouraged
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

32. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Khaki
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process

33. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

35. 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 Falkland Islands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Soma
Helmholtz Watson

36. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Encouraged

37. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John

38. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Orgy-Porgy
Decanting
With an orgy

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

40. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
The D.H.C.
Soma
Both feel alienated from World State society
With an orgy

41. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Violent Passion Surrogate

42. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
New Mexico
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

43. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Britian
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified
With an orgy

44. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki

45. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Bernard Marx
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

46. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

47. Who is John's father?
Soma
He writes a poem about solitude
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.

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

49. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness
New Mexico
Five

50. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Britian