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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
She is horrified
John
Bernard Marx

3. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Khaki
Epsilons
Britian
New Mexico

4. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
Four months
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

5. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
The D.H.C.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons
Helmholtz Watson

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

7. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
She is horrified
Tomakin
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

9. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Khaki
The Director
Soma
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

10. What was the first book that John read as a child?
New Mexico
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Soma
Bernard Marx

11. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Soma
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Khaki

12. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Four months
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Bernard Marx
He whips himself

13. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Four months
The Director
John
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

14. Where does Brave New World take place?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Falkland Islands
Britian
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

15. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The Bokanovsky Process

16. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
The Falkland Islands
To bring rain
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

17. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
To bring rain
Because she slept with their husbands
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

18. What does Soma symbolize?
He whips himself
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Orgy-Porgy

19. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

20. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake

21. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Encouraged
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

23. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Tomakin
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Four months

24. Who is John's father?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Because she slept with their husbands
The D.H.C.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

25. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Epsilons
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

26. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
He whips himself
Tomakin
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

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

28. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Falkland Islands
His physique

29. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
He whips himself
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
His physique
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

30. How does the Solidarity Service end?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
With an orgy
He conducted scientific experiments
John

31. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Encouraged
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

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

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.'
With an orgy
Khaki
Helmholtz Watson
John

35. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
He conducted scientific experiments
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Britian

36. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

37. What does Soma symbolize?
To bring rain
The Director
'A gramme is better than a damn'
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

38. How many main castes are there?
'Suffer the children'
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Five
Excessive soma intake

39. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Soma
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.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Tomakin

40. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Tomakin
Five
The Bokanovsky Process
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

41. What color do delta babies always wear?
Khaki
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
To bring rain

42. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Britian
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Director

43. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
The Bokanovsky Process
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

44. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He conducted scientific experiments
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

45. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Falkland Islands
Excessive soma intake
Epsilons
Four months

46. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
The Falkland Islands
The Director
Because she slept with their husbands

47. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged
To bring rain
Khaki

48. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

49. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The Bokanovsky Process
Decanting
Bernard Marx
She is horrified

50. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Khaki
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Director