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Trivia: Brave New World

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






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


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






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






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






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






7. What color do delta babies always wear?






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






9. Who is John's father?






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


11. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






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






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






14. How does the Solidarity Service end?






15. Explain the importance of Shakspeare






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






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






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






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


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


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






22. What does Soma symbolize?






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






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






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






26. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?






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






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






29. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?






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






31. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






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


33. How many main castes are there?






34. Why was Linda attacked by the other women of the village in the Reservation?






35. 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.'






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






37. What is Bernard Marx's main shortcoming?






38. Where is the Savage Reservation located?






39. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?






40. What was the first book that John read as a child?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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