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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. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Because she slept with their husbands
New Mexico
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
She is horrified

3. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
The Director
Encouraged
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

4. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
New Mexico
The Director
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
John

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

6. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.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
Britian
Khaki

7. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Decanting
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

8. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The Falkland Islands
His physique
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He whips himself

9. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Excessive soma intake
New Mexico

10. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.
Bernard Marx
Orgy-Porgy

11. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified

12. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Falkland Islands
Four months

13. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Director
Tomakin
'Suffer the children'

14. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Epsilons
His physique

15. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Soma
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
With an orgy

16. Where does Brave New World take place?
His physique
Britian
Orgy-Porgy
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

17. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Because she slept with their husbands
Decanting
Bernard Marx
He conducted scientific experiments

18. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
His physique
Epsilons
Tomakin

19. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'
John
Both feel alienated from World State society
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

20. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Soma
Violent Passion Surrogate
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.

21. What is the motto of the World State?
Tomakin
Community. Identity. Stability.
To bring rain
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

22. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
His physique
To bring rain
Tomakin
Epsilons

23. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Community. Identity. Stability.

24. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Excessive soma intake
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The Director
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

25. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Tomakin
Soma
Four months
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

26. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
The D.H.C.
Khaki
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

27. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
With an orgy
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy
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.

28. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Encouraged
Decanting
He whips himself
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

29. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness
'Suffer the children'
He whips himself

30. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Because she slept with their husbands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

31. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
The Bokanovsky Process
Helmholtz Watson
The D.H.C.
Helmholtz Watson

32. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Five
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Epsilons

33. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable
With an orgy
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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

35. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Soma
He conducted scientific experiments
'Suffer the children'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

36. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
With an orgy
Decanting

37. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
The Director
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He writes a poem about solitude

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

39. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

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

41. What is the motto of the World State?
Soma
New Mexico
Five
Community. Identity. Stability.

42. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
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.'
Soma
Four months

43. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Epsilons
Encouraged
Both feel alienated from World State society

44. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Encouraged
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

45. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Epsilons
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'

46. How many main castes are there?
The Falkland Islands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Five
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

47. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
'Suffer the children'
Excessive soma intake
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

48. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The Falkland Islands
The Director
Four months
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

49. What color do delta babies always wear?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Khaki

50. 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
A society of Alphas is unworkable
With an orgy
His participation in a soma-driven orgy