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Trivia: Brave New World

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






2. Where does Brave New World take place?






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






4. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






5. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






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


7. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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






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






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






11. Who is John's father?






12. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






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






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






15. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






16. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?






17. What does Soma symbolize?






18. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






19. How many main castes are there?






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






21. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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






23. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






24. 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.'






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






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






27. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?






28. What is the motto of the World State?






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






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


31. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






32. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






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






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






35. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?






36. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






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






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


39. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






40. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






41. What does Soma symbolize?






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






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


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






45. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






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






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






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






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






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