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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How many main castes are there?
New Mexico
Five
Khaki
Machinery and medicine and happiness

2. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
With an orgy
Five
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

3. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Helmholtz Watson

4. What color do delta babies always wear?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Khaki
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

5. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
John
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
To bring rain
Orgy-Porgy

6. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
With an orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons

7. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He conducted scientific experiments
The Director

8. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Bernard Marx
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands

9. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
With an orgy
The Bokanovsky Process

10. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Community. Identity. Stability.
With an orgy
New Mexico

11. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He whips himself
The Falkland Islands
Five
Tomakin

12. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
He writes a poem about solitude
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
John
The Director

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

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

15. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five

16. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
With an orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
Community. Identity. Stability.
Tomakin

17. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
The D.H.C.
Orgy-Porgy
Soma

18. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Soma
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Machinery and medicine and happiness

19. What does Soma symbolize?
Khaki
Khaki
His physique
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

20. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
He writes a poem about solitude
Both feel alienated from World State society
Four months

21. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.

22. 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.'
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

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

24. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Violent Passion Surrogate
Community. Identity. Stability.
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.
Decanting

25. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
John
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Britian

26. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director

27. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
New Mexico
The Director

28. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
His physique
Both feel alienated from World State society
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

29. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
New Mexico
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Decanting

30. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Because she slept with their husbands
New Mexico
John
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

31. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Bokanovsky Process
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

32. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Decanting
Soma
To bring rain
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

33. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He conducted scientific experiments
He writes a poem about solitude
New Mexico
She is horrified

34. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
Community. Identity. Stability.
Helmholtz Watson
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

35. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Decanting
Both feel alienated from World State society
The D.H.C.

36. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
John
John
Tomakin
His physique

37. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Excessive soma intake
Violent Passion Surrogate
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

39. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake
He conducted scientific experiments

40. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
She is horrified
With an orgy
Orgy-Porgy

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

42. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness

43. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Four months
Decanting
She is horrified

44. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
He whips himself
The Falkland Islands
Bernard Marx

45. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Violent Passion Surrogate

46. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Excessive soma intake
Encouraged
Tomakin

47. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
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.
Encouraged
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
To bring rain

48. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
He whips himself

49. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
She is horrified
He writes a poem about solitude

50. Who is John's father?
The Bokanovsky Process
Tomakin
Encouraged
The D.H.C.