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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






2. What does Soma symbolize?






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

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

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5. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






6. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?






7. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?






8. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?






9. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






10. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?






11. How does the Solidarity Service end?






12. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






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

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14. What is the purpose of the religious ritual performed by the Savages?






15. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?






16. What color do delta babies always wear?






17. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?






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

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19. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






20. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?






21. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






22. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






23. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






24. Which caste of humans is considered the lowest?






25. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...






26. Who is John's father?






27. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?






28. What does Soma symbolize?






29. Who does not sleep with Lenina?






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

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31. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?






32. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?






33. Who said the following: 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?'






34. 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.'






35. After retreating to the lighthouse - what does John do that first attracts the reporters?






36. How are children in the Nursery conditioned to dislike books and flowers?






37. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






38. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?






39. How many main castes are there?






40. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?






41. What is the motto of the World State?






42. What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard's strange character?






43. What is the motto of the World State?






44. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?






45. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...






46. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?






47. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






48. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...






49. The term for birth in the Hatchery is...






50. How does the Solidarity Service end?