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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
His physique
The Director
New Mexico
The Director

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

3. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
'A gramme is better than a damn'
To bring rain
She is horrified

4. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?
The Director
He whips himself
'A gramme is better than a damn'
John

5. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
'Suffer the children'

6. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Bernard Marx
He writes a poem about solitude
His physique
He whips himself

7. 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
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Machinery and medicine and happiness

8. 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
New Mexico
Orgy-Porgy
Violent Passion Surrogate

9. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
John
Five

10. What color do delta babies always wear?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian
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Created the assemby line; He is called 'Lord'; Religion has been replaced by technology - especially the efficient - mechanized factory production of goods that HenryFord pioneered.

11. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
The D.H.C.
He conducted scientific experiments
Helmholtz Watson
Soma

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

13. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Excessive soma intake
Khaki
He writes a poem about solitude
A society of Alphas is unworkable

14. How does the Solidarity Service end?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
With an orgy
Tomakin
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

15. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate

16. What is the motto of the World State?
Tomakin
Community. Identity. Stability.
Britian
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

17. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Helmholtz Watson
'A gramme is better than a damn'

18. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
The D.H.C.
Encouraged
John
Machinery and medicine and happiness

19. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Bernard Marx
John

20. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Director
With an orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

22. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
New Mexico
New Mexico
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

23. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
Helmholtz Watson
Because she slept with their husbands
Excessive soma intake

24. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Excessive soma intake
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 Director

25. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
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 Director
Four months
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

26. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Machinery and medicine and happiness
Four months

27. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
Because she slept with their husbands
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

28. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Epsilons
Bernard Marx
Excessive soma intake

29. 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.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Epsilons
Britian

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

31. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Britian

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

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

34. Where does Brave New World take place?
Orgy-Porgy
Britian
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Community. Identity. Stability.

35. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
With an orgy
His physique
With an orgy
Khaki

36. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
New Mexico
Four months
Encouraged

37. What does Soma symbolize?
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Bernard Marx
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

38. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Four months
Violent Passion Surrogate
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

39. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
He conducted scientific experiments

40. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
The Bokanovsky Process
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Excessive soma intake

41. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
He writes a poem about solitude
Because she slept with their husbands
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Decanting

42. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Bernard Marx
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Decanting

43. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Helmholtz Watson
To bring rain
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.

44. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Soma
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Four months

45. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Falkland Islands
'Suffer the children'
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

46. What is the motto of the World State?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Community. Identity. Stability.
'Suffer the children'

47. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
He writes a poem about solitude
Both feel alienated from World State society
Five

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

49. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
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.
To bring rain
The D.H.C.
Soma

50. How many main castes are there?
'Suffer the children'
Five
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable