Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Bernard Marx
To bring rain
The Falkland Islands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


2. Where does Brave New World take place?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Bokanovsky Process
Britian
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


3. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Community. Identity. Stability.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged


4. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Director
Bernard Marx
He writes a poem about solitude
Tomakin


5. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Encouraged
With an orgy
Decanting


6. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
John
Five
His physique


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

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

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

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10. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Tomakin
He whips himself
Both feel alienated from World State society
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


11. What does Soma symbolize?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


12. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Tomakin
Decanting
Both feel alienated from World State society


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

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14. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Community. Identity. Stability.
John
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


15. What is the motto of the World State?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Decanting
Community. Identity. Stability.


16. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Four months
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
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.


17. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Because she slept with their husbands
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Tomakin
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


18. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process
Both feel alienated from World State society
Encouraged


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

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20. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands
Five


21. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Five
Excessive soma intake
Orgy-Porgy
Because she slept with their husbands


22. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
She is horrified
The Falkland Islands
To bring rain
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


23. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Britian
Khaki
He writes a poem about solitude


24. 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.'
Epsilons
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified
Helmholtz Watson


25. How many main castes are there?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The D.H.C.
Five
Both feel alienated from World State society


26. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Both feel alienated from World State society
Helmholtz Watson
The Falkland Islands
A society of Alphas is unworkable


27. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
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.
Epsilons


28. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified
His physique
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


29. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Both feel alienated from World State society
He writes a poem about solitude
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


30. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Excessive soma intake


31. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
The Director
Decanting
Orgy-Porgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


32. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


33. What color do delta babies always wear?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
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 society of Alphas is unworkable
Khaki


34. What was the first book that John read as a child?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Encouraged


35. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
She is horrified
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
John
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


36. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified
With an orgy


37. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
'Suffer the children'
The D.H.C.


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

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39. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Helmholtz Watson


40. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The Director
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.
Four months
Excessive soma intake


41. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Because she slept with their husbands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


42. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
His physique
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'Suffer the children'


43. What does Soma symbolize?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


44. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
'Suffer the children'
The Bokanovsky Process


45. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Both feel alienated from World State society
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Machinery and medicine and happiness


46. How many main castes are there?
Encouraged
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
Five


47. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Four months
His physique
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because she slept with their husbands


48. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


49. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Violent Passion Surrogate


50. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Machinery and medicine and happiness
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.
Five