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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?
Epsilons
Community. Identity. Stability.
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
He whips himself

2. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

3. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Orgy-Porgy
The Bokanovsky Process
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Because she slept with their husbands

4. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?
Because she slept with their husbands
His physique
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'

5. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Decanting
He conducted scientific experiments
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

6. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
Four months
Both feel alienated from World State society
Bernard Marx
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

7. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
Bernard Marx
Khaki
Both feel alienated from World State society
The Falkland Islands

8. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...
Encouraged
Soma
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Decanting

9. Explain the importance of Shakspeare
Epsilons
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

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.'
He conducted scientific experiments
Helmholtz Watson
Bernard Marx
Britian

11. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
Tomakin
Violent Passion Surrogate
Soma
The Director

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

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

14. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
To bring rain
Because she slept with their husbands
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest

15. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
Excessive soma intake
Community. Identity. Stability.
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

16. Who is John's father?
Violent Passion Surrogate
The D.H.C.
He writes a poem about solitude
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

17. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
He whips himself
Britian

18. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Decanting
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
A society of Alphas is unworkable

19. Where does Brave New World take place?
The Director
Britian
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Tomakin

20. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
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.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
A society of Alphas is unworkable

21. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
A society of Alphas is unworkable
'Suffer the children'

22. How many main castes are there?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Five
The Falkland Islands
Decanting

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

24. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Excessive soma intake

25. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?
The Director
She is horrified
Tomakin
Excessive soma intake

26. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
The Director
Decanting
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

27. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
New Mexico
To bring rain
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

28. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Community. Identity. Stability.
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Orgy-Porgy

29. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Tomakin
Community. Identity. Stability.
To bring rain
Machinery and medicine and happiness

30. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
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.
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
He conducted scientific experiments
'A gramme is better than a damn'

31. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
The D.H.C.
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Director
Tomakin

32. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
New Mexico
The D.H.C.
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Excessive soma intake

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

34. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
'Suffer the children'
Decanting
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

35. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?
Five
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Because she slept with their husbands
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

36. What does Soma symbolize?
He conducted scientific experiments
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Bokanovsky Process
With an orgy

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

38. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
Excessive soma intake
'A gramme is better than a damn'
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Machinery and medicine and happiness

39. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
New Mexico
The Director

40. What does Soma symbolize?
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
He whips himself
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
Epsilons

41. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Bokanovsky Process
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
'A gramme is better than a damn'

42. 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
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He writes a poem about solitude
He writes a poem about solitude

43. How does the Solidarity Service end?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
With an orgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
He conducted scientific experiments

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

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

46. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
He conducted scientific experiments
New Mexico

47. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Orgy-Porgy
Encouraged
He conducted scientific experiments
Decanting

48. How does the Solidarity Service end?
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 D.H.C.
With an orgy
Helmholtz Watson

49. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?
His physique
Epsilons
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Encouraged

50. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
To bring rain
Violent Passion Surrogate
The Falkland Islands