Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Four months
A society of Alphas is unworkable


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

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3. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


4. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Bernard Marx
He writes a poem about solitude
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


5. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
Community. Identity. Stability.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness


6. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
John
To bring rain
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.


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

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8. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Bokanovsky Process
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


9. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The D.H.C.
The Director
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He conducted scientific experiments


10. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


11. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
With an orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique
Epsilons


12. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
New Mexico


13. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'A gramme is better than a damn'
With an orgy


14. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Because she slept with their husbands
Four months
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable


15. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Four months
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
His physique


16. How many main castes are there?
'Suffer the children'
Five
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


17. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
John
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude


18. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Khaki
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The D.H.C.


19. Where does Brave New World take place?
John
Tomakin
Britian
Soma


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

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21. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Both feel alienated from World State society
'Suffer the children'


22. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
The Director
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Orgy-Porgy
He whips himself


23. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Bernard Marx
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


24. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
He writes a poem about solitude
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'plenty of pleasant vices.'


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

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26. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Five
Because she slept with their husbands
The Bokanovsky Process
Helmholtz Watson


27. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Four months
Community. Identity. Stability.


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

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29. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He whips himself
Five
She is horrified


30. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.


31. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
Four months
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.


32. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Because she slept with their husbands
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy


33. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands
His physique
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest


34. How does the Solidarity Service end?
His physique
With an orgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'


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.'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Helmholtz Watson
With an orgy


36. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Encouraged


37. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting


38. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
Because she slept with their husbands
Tomakin
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests


39. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Because she slept with their husbands
Excessive soma intake
The Bokanovsky Process
He whips himself


40. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Four months
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 inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


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

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42. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Encouraged
To bring rain
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Both feel alienated from World State society


43. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Five
Community. Identity. Stability.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


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

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45. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands
Khaki
Decanting


46. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
'Suffer the children'
Orgy-Porgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre


47. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Director
With an orgy


48. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The Director
Bernard Marx
Encouraged
Tomakin


49. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Both feel alienated from World State society
Tomakin
She is horrified


50. What does Soma symbolize?
Five
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.