Trivia: Brave New World

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1. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
He conducted scientific experiments
Four months
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


2. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
Helmholtz Watson
New Mexico
Decanting


3. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Soma
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


4. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Soma


5. What does Soma symbolize?
The D.H.C.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Falkland Islands


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

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

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8. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Epsilons
His physique
Three Weeks in a Helicopter


9. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Community. Identity. Stability.


10. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
She is horrified
Tomakin
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


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

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12. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Tomakin


13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months


14. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Bernard Marx
She is horrified
His physique
Excessive soma intake


15. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Khaki
Epsilons


16. Who is John's father?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
New Mexico
The D.H.C.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


17. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Soma
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'


18. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
To bring rain
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


19. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
John


20. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons


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


22. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Helmholtz Watson
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Epsilons


23. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Bernard Marx
Violent Passion Surrogate


24. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
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.
He writes a poem about solitude
Bernard Marx
Because she slept with their husbands


25. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
She is horrified
Soma
Khaki


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

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27. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Falkland Islands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


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

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29. Where does Brave New World take place?
Encouraged
Britian
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Tomakin


30. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
'Suffer the children'
He conducted scientific experiments
Decanting
Community. Identity. Stability.


31. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
To bring rain
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.
Bernard Marx


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

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33. How many main castes are there?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Five
He writes a poem about solitude
John


34. 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 Falkland Islands
Epsilons
Violent Passion Surrogate
Helmholtz Watson


35. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
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.
He writes a poem about solitude
Helmholtz Watson
Soma


36. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
With an orgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
He writes a poem about solitude


37. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Soma
Community. Identity. Stability.
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process


38. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Falkland Islands
Five
Because she slept with their husbands


39. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude


40. Where does Brave New World take place?
The Director
Britian
He whips himself
Orgy-Porgy


41. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
John
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable


42. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Because she slept with their husbands
The D.H.C.
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


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

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44. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified
Khaki


45. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Bokanovsky Process


46. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
'Suffer the children'
'A gramme is better than a damn'


47. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate
Bernard Marx
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


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

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

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50. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
He writes a poem about solitude
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
'Suffer the children'