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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Tomakin
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society

2. How many main castes are there?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Five
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique

3. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Five
He writes a poem about solitude
Machinery and medicine and happiness
New Mexico

4. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
John

5. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Encouraged
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Bernard Marx

6. Where does Brave New World take place?
Helmholtz Watson
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
New Mexico
Britian

7. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Decanting
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
A society of Alphas is unworkable
With an orgy

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

9. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'Suffer the children'
John
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

10. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Four months
New Mexico
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
She is horrified

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

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

13. 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.'
Four months
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

14. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Britian
Community. Identity. Stability.
Soma

15. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Bokanovsky Process
John
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

16. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Violent Passion Surrogate
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Four months
He conducted scientific experiments

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

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

19. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Khaki
Decanting
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself

20. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He conducted scientific experiments
With an orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

21. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Britian
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Excessive soma intake
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

22. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
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
The Falkland Islands

23. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Decanting
He whips himself
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

24. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Falkland Islands
He conducted scientific experiments
Decanting

25. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because she slept with their husbands
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Tomakin

26. What color do delta babies always wear?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
John
Khaki
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

28. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Both feel alienated from World State society
Machinery and medicine and happiness

29. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
John
He writes a poem about solitude
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Machinery and medicine and happiness

30. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Decanting
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process

31. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
She is horrified

32. 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.
Excessive soma intake
Four months
'Suffer the children'

33. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Community. Identity. Stability.
'A gramme is better than a damn'
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

34. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John
'Suffer the children'

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

36. 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.'
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Helmholtz Watson

37. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
He conducted scientific experiments
Helmholtz Watson
Because she slept with their husbands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

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

39. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Epsilons
With an orgy

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

41. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

42. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
John
Decanting
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

43. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Decanting
The Director
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons

44. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because she slept with their husbands
Bernard Marx
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?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
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.
The Director

46. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian
To bring rain

47. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Khaki
His physique
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The D.H.C.

48. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Violent Passion Surrogate
He conducted scientific experiments
Machinery and medicine and happiness

49. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
She is horrified
Tomakin
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

50. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
He whips himself
To bring rain
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre