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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Director
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Soma

3. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Tomakin
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
New Mexico

4. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting
Machinery and medicine and happiness

5. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

7. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Helmholtz Watson
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

9. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

10. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
To bring rain
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma

11. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Encouraged
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands
To bring rain

12. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Four months
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Bernard Marx

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

14. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Khaki
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Tomakin

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

16. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Bokanovsky Process

17. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Soma
Machinery and medicine and happiness

18. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Community. Identity. Stability.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
'A gramme is better than a damn'

19. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John
Soma
Five

20. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
John
'Suffer the children'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
New Mexico

21. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
A society of Alphas is unworkable

22. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Falkland Islands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged

23. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
She is horrified
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

24. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
Community. Identity. Stability.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

25. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Soma

26. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged
Tomakin
The Bokanovsky Process

27. 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
Britian
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

28. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
With an orgy

29. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Soma
Britian
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

30. Who is John's father?
With an orgy
The D.H.C.
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin

31. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Orgy-Porgy
Khaki
He whips himself
She is horrified

32. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude
John
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

33. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Community. Identity. Stability.

34. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Decanting
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Helmholtz Watson

35. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
His physique
Four months

36. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
The Bokanovsky Process
She is horrified
Community. Identity. Stability.

37. What is the motto of the World State?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Bokanovsky Process
Community. Identity. Stability.
Epsilons

38. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Britian
He whips himself
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Orgy-Porgy

39. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Excessive soma intake
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Encouraged
John

40. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
To bring rain
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

41. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
He conducted scientific experiments
Excessive soma intake
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

42. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Epsilons
Britian
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Bokanovsky Process

43. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He whips himself
The Bokanovsky Process
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

44. Where does Brave New World take place?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian
Khaki

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

46. What does Soma symbolize?
Orgy-Porgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director

47. How many main castes are there?
Five
He writes a poem about solitude
Encouraged
Community. Identity. Stability.

48. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Encouraged
Both feel alienated from World State society
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

49. 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.'
Helmholtz Watson
Five
Decanting
He conducted scientific experiments

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