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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Bernard Marx
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Tomakin

2. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Britian
Tomakin
Epsilons
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

4. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson

5. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Tomakin
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki

6. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
John
His physique
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director

7. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Helmholtz Watson
His physique

8. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
To bring rain
The Director
Tomakin
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

9. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Britian
She is horrified
The D.H.C.

10. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Soma
Excessive soma intake
With an orgy

11. What color do delta babies always wear?
He writes a poem about solitude
Khaki
Because she slept with their husbands
The Falkland Islands

12. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He whips himself
Five

13. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
She is horrified
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

14. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Five

15. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He whips himself
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The D.H.C.

16. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Encouraged
His physique
To bring rain
Helmholtz Watson

17. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
New Mexico
Khaki
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

18. 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.'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He whips himself
Helmholtz Watson
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.

19. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Encouraged
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.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Decanting

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

21. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Decanting
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

22. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Encouraged
Khaki
He writes a poem about solitude
Epsilons

23. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Bernard Marx
He conducted scientific experiments
Bernard Marx
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

24. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Tomakin
'Suffer the children'

25. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
To bring rain
His physique
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

27. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
He conducted scientific experiments

28. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
With an orgy
To bring rain
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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
He writes a poem about solitude
Soma
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

30. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Britian
Epsilons
With an orgy
'Suffer the children'

31. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico
The Bokanovsky Process

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

33. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Epsilons
She is horrified
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

34. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Bernard Marx

35. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
He writes a poem about solitude
Five
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

37. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Epsilons
He writes a poem about solitude
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Falkland Islands

38. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Falkland Islands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

39. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Epsilons
New Mexico

40. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
To bring rain
'Suffer the children'
Community. Identity. Stability.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

41. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Helmholtz Watson
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

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

43. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Britian
Four months
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Both feel alienated from World State society

44. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Orgy-Porgy
Both feel alienated from World State society
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

45. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Epsilons
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

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

48. What is the motto of the World State?
Tomakin
Excessive soma intake
Community. Identity. Stability.
Encouraged

49. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Community. Identity. Stability.
New Mexico

50. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Excessive soma intake
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
A society of Alphas is unworkable