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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'A gramme is better than a damn'

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

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

4. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Orgy-Porgy

5. 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.'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Helmholtz Watson
The Director
His physique

6. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Orgy-Porgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
He writes a poem about solitude
She is horrified

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

8. What does Soma symbolize?
Excessive soma intake
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

9. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Both feel alienated from World State society
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Khaki

10. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He writes a poem about solitude
He conducted scientific experiments
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
A society of Alphas is unworkable

11. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Excessive soma intake
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

12. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Soma
She is horrified
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He writes a poem about solitude

13. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Decanting

14. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Khaki
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

15. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Both feel alienated from World State society
Five
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Decanting

16. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Decanting
Because she slept with their husbands
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'

17. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Because she slept with their husbands
His physique
Excessive soma intake

18. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Decanting
Both feel alienated from World State society
He writes a poem about solitude
Orgy-Porgy

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

20. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
New Mexico
She is horrified
The Director
The Falkland Islands

21. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
The Director
Tomakin
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Encouraged

22. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
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.
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.

23. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Tomakin
The Bokanovsky Process

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

25. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
To bring rain
Epsilons
Khaki
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

26. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Four months
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Encouraged

27. What is the motto of the World State?
Decanting
Soma
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.

28. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Helmholtz Watson
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Britian

29. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
She is horrified
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

30. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Bokanovsky Process
Five

31. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Helmholtz Watson
The Bokanovsky Process
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
He conducted scientific experiments

32. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Khaki
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Four months
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

33. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Violent Passion Surrogate
She is horrified
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

34. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Decanting
'Suffer the children'
He writes a poem about solitude
A society of Alphas is unworkable

35. Who is John's father?
The Bokanovsky Process
Bernard Marx
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 D.H.C.

36. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
'Suffer the children'

37. What color do delta babies always wear?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Falkland Islands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Khaki

38. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Epsilons
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

39. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Machinery and medicine and happiness

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

41. Where does Brave New World take place?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Britian
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

42. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Five
The Director
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
With an orgy

43. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

44. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
New Mexico
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

45. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He writes a poem about solitude
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Director

46. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
The Falkland Islands
Epsilons
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John

47. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Four months
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Community. Identity. Stability.

48. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Decanting
She is horrified
Tomakin
Helmholtz Watson

49. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
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.
Five
Bernard Marx

50. How many main castes are there?
Britian
She is horrified
With an orgy
Five