Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
To bring rain
Tomakin
Encouraged
Five


2. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Tomakin
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


3. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
He whips himself
The Director
He whips himself
She is horrified


4. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the 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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Because she slept with their husbands


5. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
To bring rain
Excessive soma intake
Britian


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

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7. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
He conducted scientific experiments
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
Community. Identity. Stability.


8. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Falkland Islands


9. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified
Bernard Marx


10. What does Soma symbolize?
To bring rain
'Suffer the children'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
'Suffer the children'


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

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12. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands


13. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Khaki
Decanting
Encouraged
Orgy-Porgy


14. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Five
To bring rain
The Director


15. How many main castes are there?
Four months
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
John
Five


16. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He writes a poem about solitude
Both feel alienated from World State society
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


17. How does the Solidarity Service end?
He writes a poem about solitude
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons
With an orgy


18. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


19. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Soma
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.
Excessive soma intake
Decanting


20. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


21. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Orgy-Porgy
Decanting
The Director


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

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23. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


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

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25. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Epsilons
The Bokanovsky Process
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'A gramme is better than a damn'


26. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Khaki
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Tomakin


27. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
'Suffer the children'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki


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

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29. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


30. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified
Khaki


31. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Epsilons
The Director
Tomakin


32. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Epsilons


33. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
The Director
Four months
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


34. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Khaki
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
A society of Alphas is unworkable


35. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
New Mexico
Tomakin
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He conducted scientific experiments


36. How many main castes are there?
Five
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Tomakin
The Falkland Islands


37. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Five
New Mexico
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Encouraged


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

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

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40. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments


41. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


42. Where does Brave New World take place?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Britian
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


43. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Khaki
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
To bring rain
With an orgy


44. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
His physique
Because she slept with their husbands
Tomakin
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


45. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
To bring rain
Four months
New Mexico


46. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He writes a poem about solitude
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'Suffer the children'


47. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Violent Passion Surrogate
Soma
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Encouraged


48. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
To bring rain
He whips himself
Bernard Marx
Machinery and medicine and happiness


49. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Bernard Marx


50. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate