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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

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

3. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Britian
To bring rain
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
John

4. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Because she slept with their husbands
The Director
Five
Britian

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

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

7. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
She is horrified

8. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Director
Decanting
Decanting

9. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Bokanovsky Process
Five
The Falkland Islands

10. Where does Brave New World take place?
Bernard Marx
Britian
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate

11. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Encouraged
Tomakin
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

12. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

13. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Encouraged
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

14. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Four months
His physique
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

15. How many main castes are there?
She is horrified
Community. Identity. Stability.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Five

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

17. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Khaki
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Soma

18. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
John
She is horrified
Orgy-Porgy

19. What was the first book that John read as a child?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
To bring rain
Encouraged
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

20. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Epsilons
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Soma
He writes a poem about solitude

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

22. 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
He whips himself
He conducted scientific experiments
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

24. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Decanting
The Director
A society of Alphas is unworkable

25. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Epsilons
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

26. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Excessive soma intake
Epsilons
New Mexico
Decanting

27. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands

28. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
He conducted scientific experiments
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting
The Falkland Islands

29. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
To bring rain
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Bernard Marx

30. 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.'
With an orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Helmholtz Watson

31. 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
Four months
The Bokanovsky Process
Orgy-Porgy

32. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
A society of Alphas is unworkable

33. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Bernard Marx
Helmholtz Watson

34. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Encouraged
His physique

35. Who is John's father?
Decanting
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The D.H.C.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

36. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

37. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
The Falkland Islands
Four months
A society of Alphas is unworkable
With an orgy

38. What is the motto of the World State?
The Falkland Islands
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

39. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
She is horrified
Community. Identity. Stability.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Bernard Marx

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

41. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons
John
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.

42. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Because she slept with their husbands
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.

43. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Orgy-Porgy
He whips himself
Encouraged
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

44. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Soma
Soma
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

45. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

46. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Britian
The Director
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

47. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Helmholtz Watson
He whips himself
The Bokanovsky Process
Community. Identity. Stability.

48. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
He whips himself
The D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society

49. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Soma
Both feel alienated from World State society

50. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands
John
The Bokanovsky Process