Test your basic knowledge |

Trivia: Brave New World

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






2. What color do delta babies always wear?






3. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






4. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






5. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


7. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






8. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






9. Where does Brave New World take place?






10. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


12. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






13. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






14. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


16. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






17. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?






18. How many main castes are there?






19. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






20. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






21. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






22. What is the motto of the World State?






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.'






24. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






25. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






26. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






27. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






28. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






29. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






30. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






31. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






32. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






33. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


35. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






36. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






37. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






38. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






39. Who is John's father?






40. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






41. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






42. Who is John's father?






43. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






44. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






45. What was the first book that John read as a child?






46. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?






47. What was the first book that John read as a child?






48. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






49. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183