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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
John
The Director
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

3. 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
The Director
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because she slept with their husbands

4. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Both feel alienated from World State society
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

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

6. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Britian
Violent Passion Surrogate
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

7. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
He conducted scientific experiments
Both feel alienated from World State society
Encouraged
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

8. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Khaki
He writes a poem about solitude
John
Decanting

9. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Both feel alienated from World State society
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Soma
The Bokanovsky Process

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

11. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Orgy-Porgy
Decanting
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

12. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His physique
Four months

13. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
He conducted scientific experiments
He writes a poem about solitude

14. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
The D.H.C.
Tomakin
His physique

15. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
To bring rain
He whips himself
Machinery and medicine and happiness

16. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Community. Identity. Stability.
Orgy-Porgy
The D.H.C.

17. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The D.H.C.
He conducted scientific experiments
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Machinery and medicine and happiness

18. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

19. What color do delta babies always wear?
Epsilons
Khaki
New Mexico
With an orgy

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

21. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
He conducted scientific experiments
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
New Mexico
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

22. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

23. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
He writes a poem about solitude
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
A society of Alphas is unworkable
The Falkland Islands

24. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
With an orgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Falkland Islands
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

25. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
His physique
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Decanting

26. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
A society of Alphas is unworkable
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Britian

27. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
He whips himself
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He writes a poem about solitude

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

29. 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.'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Violent Passion Surrogate
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Helmholtz Watson

30. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Because she slept with their husbands
The Falkland Islands
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

31. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
Tomakin
She is horrified
John

32. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Encouraged
Five
New Mexico
The D.H.C.

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

34. Who is John's father?
To bring rain
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The D.H.C.
Epsilons

35. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Soma
Epsilons

36. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian
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.

37. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Bernard Marx
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

38. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
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.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Epsilons

39. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Khaki

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

41. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

42. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The Director
The Director
Excessive soma intake
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

43. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Epsilons
Bernard Marx
To bring rain
The Bokanovsky Process

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

45. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
She is horrified
Decanting
Machinery and medicine and happiness

46. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Encouraged
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.
John
He whips himself

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

48. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
He conducted scientific experiments
He conducted scientific experiments
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

49. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Tomakin

50. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Falkland Islands
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Five