Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
New Mexico
John
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


2. What color do delta babies always wear?
Helmholtz Watson
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Falkland Islands
Khaki


3. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Falkland Islands


4. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
His physique
Bernard Marx
The Bokanovsky Process


5. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
The Director
Helmholtz Watson
He conducted scientific experiments


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

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7. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.


8. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Four months
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Four months


9. Where does Brave New World take place?
Britian
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Community. Identity. Stability.


10. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Community. Identity. Stability.
Epsilons


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

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12. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Tomakin
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
She is horrified


13. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Violent Passion Surrogate
'Suffer the children'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director


14. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
'Suffer the children'
Bernard Marx
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian


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

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16. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
To bring rain
Excessive soma intake
He whips himself


17. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He writes a poem about solitude


18. How many main castes are there?
Five
He whips himself
He writes a poem about solitude
Khaki


19. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Helmholtz Watson
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Four months
She is horrified


20. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
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
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Violent Passion Surrogate


21. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
To bring rain
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Falkland Islands
She is horrified


22. What is the motto of the World State?
Because she slept with their husbands
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Director
'Suffer the children'


23. 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.'
Both feel alienated from World State society
He whips himself
Helmholtz Watson
She is horrified


24. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Encouraged
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness


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


26. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
Four months
He whips himself


27. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


28. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands


29. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Helmholtz Watson
The Falkland Islands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


30. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Tomakin
With an orgy
Epsilons


31. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
Five
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers


32. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
New Mexico


33. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
He whips himself
Four months
Decanting
Soma


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

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35. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The D.H.C.
Excessive soma intake
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process


36. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
'Suffer the children'


37. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Community. Identity. Stability.
Bernard Marx
Tomakin


38. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
She is horrified
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


39. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
'Suffer the children'
Orgy-Porgy


40. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Encouraged
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Epsilons


41. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director
Excessive soma intake
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


42. Who is John's father?
The D.H.C.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Five
He whips himself


43. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
Violent Passion Surrogate
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Falkland Islands


44. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Encouraged
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His physique
Community. Identity. Stability.


45. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Soma
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


46. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
John
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate


47. What was the first book that John read as a child?
With an orgy
Five
Five
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo


48. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Because she slept with their husbands
Epsilons
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation


49. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Epsilons
Four months
The Director


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

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