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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Orgy-Porgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His physique
Decanting

2. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Soma

3. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
He conducted scientific experiments
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Machinery and medicine and happiness

4. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
John
Four months
'Suffer the children'
Soma

5. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki
Epsilons
His physique

6. Who is John's father?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director
The D.H.C.
Encouraged

7. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Encouraged
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

8. Where does Brave New World take place?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands

9. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His physique
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
John

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

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

12. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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 D.H.C.
The Bokanovsky Process
To bring rain

13. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
John
The Director
To bring rain

14. What color do delta babies always wear?
His physique
Bernard Marx
Khaki
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

15. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
'Suffer the children'
Britian
He whips himself
'A gramme is better than a damn'

16. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Decanting

17. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Khaki
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified
A society of Alphas is unworkable

18. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

19. How does the Solidarity Service end?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
With an orgy
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

20. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Violent Passion Surrogate
New Mexico

21. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
His physique
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 D.H.C.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

22. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
Encouraged
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

23. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
He writes a poem about solitude
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Falkland Islands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

25. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

26. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Helmholtz Watson
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

27. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Director
Decanting

28. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The Falkland Islands
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
His physique

29. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Soma
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Helmholtz Watson

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

31. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
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.
He writes a poem about solitude
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

32. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Bernard Marx
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged
Four months

33. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
He conducted scientific experiments
Orgy-Porgy
Five

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

35. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Britian
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Machinery and medicine and happiness

36. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Four months
Encouraged
Tomakin
Machinery and medicine and happiness

37. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Orgy-Porgy
Orgy-Porgy
Excessive soma intake
John

38. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Falkland Islands
To bring rain
Soma

39. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Orgy-Porgy
'Suffer the children'
Because she slept with their husbands
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

40. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Encouraged
The D.H.C.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable

41. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Soma
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The D.H.C.

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

43. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Epsilons
Encouraged
He writes a poem about solitude
The Falkland Islands

44. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
'Suffer the children'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Bokanovsky Process

45. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Helmholtz Watson
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He writes a poem about solitude

46. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He whips himself
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

47. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Tomakin
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Violent Passion Surrogate
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

48. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Decanting
Soma
Excessive soma intake

49. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands
He conducted scientific experiments
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

50. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.