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Trivia: Brave New World

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

2. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Decanting
Orgy-Porgy
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness

3. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

4. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
He whips himself
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Encouraged

5. 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.'
Because she slept with their husbands
Helmholtz Watson
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Britian

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

7. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Decanting
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

8. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Tomakin
Decanting
He whips himself

9. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
The Director
Excessive soma intake
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

10. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
His physique
John
Khaki

11. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Khaki
She is horrified
'Suffer the children'
The Falkland Islands

12. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Helmholtz Watson
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness

13. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

14. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Excessive soma intake
Bernard Marx
He writes a poem about solitude
New Mexico

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

16. Who is John's father?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Violent Passion Surrogate
The D.H.C.
Soma

17. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
John
She is horrified
Decanting
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

18. How does the Solidarity Service end?
New Mexico
With an orgy
Helmholtz Watson
Encouraged

19. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

20. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
He writes a poem about solitude
Tomakin
New Mexico
Community. Identity. Stability.

21. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
'Suffer the children'
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
With an orgy

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

23. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
Britian
Orgy-Porgy
John
Encouraged

24. What color do delta babies always wear?
Five
The Director
He writes a poem about solitude
Khaki

25. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Encouraged
Khaki
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

26. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He whips himself
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Director

27. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
To bring rain
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Both feel alienated from World State society

28. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Both feel alienated from World State society
Decanting
He writes a poem about solitude

29. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Encouraged
Khaki
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.
Excessive soma intake

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

31. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
The Bokanovsky Process
John
To bring rain
'Suffer the children'

32. What was the first book that John read as a child?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
With an orgy
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

33. What is the motto of the World State?
The Director
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.

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

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

36. Where does Brave New World take place?
New Mexico
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Britian
Soma

37. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Decanting
Excessive soma intake

38. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
She is horrified
To bring rain

39. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
His physique
Bernard Marx
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'

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

41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Falkland Islands
Four months
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

42. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Director
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

43. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Soma
He whips himself
With an orgy
The Falkland Islands

44. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
To bring rain
She is horrified
Because she slept with their husbands

45. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
His physique
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Violent Passion Surrogate

46. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Encouraged
The Bokanovsky Process
'Suffer the children'
Decanting

47. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
She is horrified
He whips himself
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting

48. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
He conducted scientific experiments
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

49. Where does Brave New World take place?
John
He conducted scientific experiments
Britian
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

50. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Khaki
Encouraged