Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
To bring rain
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


2. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because she slept with their husbands
Bernard Marx
Community. Identity. Stability.


3. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Soma
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He writes a poem about solitude


4. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude
Epsilons


5. What is the motto of the World State?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Community. Identity. Stability.
Both feel alienated from World State society
Khaki


6. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
The Falkland Islands
With an orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He whips himself


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

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

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9. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Encouraged


10. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The Bokanovsky Process
New Mexico
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Khaki


11. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
With an orgy
New Mexico
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


12. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director
Tomakin
Khaki


13. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Epsilons
Britian
Encouraged


14. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Community. Identity. Stability.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
He writes a poem about solitude


15. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He whips himself
Bernard Marx
Tomakin


16. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because she slept with their husbands
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake


17. What does Soma symbolize?
The Falkland Islands
He conducted scientific experiments
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


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

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19. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The D.H.C.
With an orgy


20. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
She is horrified
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


21. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments
Tomakin
Both feel alienated from World State society


22. Where does Brave New World take place?
Bernard Marx
She is horrified
'Suffer the children'
Britian


23. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
'Suffer the children'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
To bring rain
He whips himself


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

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25. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
Violent Passion Surrogate
New Mexico
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


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

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27. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Helmholtz Watson
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
She is horrified


28. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Encouraged


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

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

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31. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
With an orgy
Tomakin
Bernard Marx
His participation in a soma-driven orgy


32. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Orgy-Porgy
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
She is horrified


33. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
Community. Identity. Stability.
New Mexico
Machinery and medicine and happiness


34. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
To bring rain
Bernard Marx
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
His physique


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 D.H.C.
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands
Helmholtz Watson


36. What was the first book that John read as a child?
'Suffer the children'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


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


38. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Soma
New Mexico
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Falkland Islands


39. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
New Mexico
Decanting
Epsilons
Decanting


40. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director
Excessive soma intake
Epsilons


41. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Decanting
Helmholtz Watson
Both feel alienated from World State society
Encouraged


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

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43. What color do delta babies always wear?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Khaki
New Mexico
Both feel alienated from World State society


44. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
She is horrified
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


45. What color do delta babies always wear?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Falkland Islands
Khaki


46. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
He writes a poem about solitude
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
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.


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

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48. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Four months
Bernard Marx


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


50. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation