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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He whips himself
His physique
He writes a poem about solitude

2. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
His physique
She is horrified
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Epsilons

3. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He conducted scientific experiments
Bernard Marx
Orgy-Porgy

4. Where does Brave New World take place?
Because she slept with their husbands
New Mexico
'Suffer the children'
Britian

5. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Orgy-Porgy
Because she slept with their husbands
He writes a poem about solitude
Encouraged

6. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Bokanovsky Process
His physique
Khaki

7. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
The Falkland Islands
The D.H.C.
Khaki
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

8. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Four months
With an orgy
The Director

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

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

11. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Helmholtz Watson
He conducted scientific experiments
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

12. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Orgy-Porgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
To bring rain
Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

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

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

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

16. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Both feel alienated from World State society
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because she slept with their husbands
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

17. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
The Falkland Islands
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Soma

18. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Soma
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Violent Passion Surrogate
'A gramme is better than a damn'

19. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
A society of Alphas is unworkable
New Mexico
Because she slept with their husbands

20. 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.'
Helmholtz Watson
Violent Passion Surrogate
To bring rain
The Director

21. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
Britian
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
The Director
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

22. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
He whips himself
The Director
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

23. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
He conducted scientific experiments
Both feel alienated from World State society
Four months
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

24. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
The Director
New Mexico
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

25. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
Tomakin
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Community. Identity. Stability.
She is horrified

26. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
His physique
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

27. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
Encouraged
A society of Alphas is unworkable
He conducted scientific experiments
Khaki

28. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
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
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Excessive soma intake

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

30. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Five
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Excessive soma intake
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

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

32. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Decanting
Excessive soma intake
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

33. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Four months
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Soma

34. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
She is horrified
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Machinery and medicine and happiness

35. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
Excessive soma intake
Violent Passion Surrogate
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Soma

36. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
Khaki
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Britian

37. How many main castes are there?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Five
She is horrified
John

38. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Epsilons
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
John
New Mexico

39. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Director
Four months

40. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Khaki
With an orgy
'Suffer the children'
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

41. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
To bring rain
Bernard Marx
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

42. What color do delta babies always wear?
The D.H.C.
Britian
Both feel alienated from World State society
Khaki

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

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

45. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Excessive soma intake
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
'Suffer the children'

46. Where does Brave New World take place?
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
Britian
Because she slept with their husbands

47. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
Five
New Mexico
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.

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

49. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
The D.H.C.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director

50. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
New Mexico
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Because she slept with their husbands