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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
He whips himself
Decanting
Encouraged
Five

2. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Helmholtz Watson

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

4. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director
Khaki

5. Who is John's father?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate
Both feel alienated from World State society

6. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Director
Excessive soma intake

7. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
'Suffer the children'
He whips himself
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
The Falkland Islands

8. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Encouraged
The Director
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

9. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Epsilons

10. 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.'
Khaki
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Helmholtz Watson

11. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
The Falkland Islands
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Britian
He writes a poem about solitude

12. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
He writes a poem about solitude
Khaki
'Suffer the children'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

13. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
Epsilons
Bernard Marx
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
His physique

14. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
He writes a poem about solitude
The D.H.C.

15. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
New Mexico
Tomakin
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
To bring rain

16. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Encouraged
John
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
She is horrified

17. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
He conducted scientific experiments
He whips himself
John
Both feel alienated from World State society

18. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Epsilons
The Director

19. What was the first book that John read as a child?
He conducted scientific experiments
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Five

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

21. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
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.
Epsilons
Orgy-Porgy

22. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
The Bokanovsky Process
She is horrified
The D.H.C.

23. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Bokanovsky Process
New Mexico
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

25. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
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.
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate
His physique

26. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Tomakin
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
'Suffer the children'

27. Where does Brave New World take place?
With an orgy
'Suffer the children'
Britian
Violent Passion Surrogate

28. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
To bring rain
The D.H.C.
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico

29. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself
He writes a poem about solitude

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

31. What is the motto of the World State?
Five
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Director
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

32. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

34. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Soma
Bernard Marx
With an orgy

35. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
New Mexico
Britian
Machinery and medicine and happiness

36. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Bernard Marx
Because she slept with their husbands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

37. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Soma
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
John
New Mexico

38. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Bokanovsky Process
Both feel alienated from World State society
Soma

39. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
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.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Community. Identity. Stability.
A society of Alphas is unworkable

40. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Violent Passion Surrogate
'Suffer the children'
Epsilons

41. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Community. Identity. Stability.

42. What is the motto of the World State?
The D.H.C.
Community. Identity. Stability.
Epsilons
Violent Passion Surrogate

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

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

45. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Khaki
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Because she slept with their husbands

46. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Helmholtz Watson

47. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
The Director
With an orgy
Decanting

48. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
New Mexico
Five
The Bokanovsky Process
To bring rain

49. How does the Solidarity Service end?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
With an orgy
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Four months

50. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Five
She is horrified
Three Weeks in a Helicopter