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Trivia: Brave New World

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1. What is the motto of the World State?
Community. Identity. Stability.
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
To bring rain
He conducted scientific experiments

2. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
He conducted scientific experiments
The Falkland Islands
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

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

4. Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as 'Christianity without tears'?
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Soma
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments

5. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
Excessive soma intake
Orgy-Porgy

6. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
'Suffer the children'
She is horrified
Orgy-Porgy
The Bokanovsky Process

7. Who escorts the students through the hatchery?
The Director
Britian
Epsilons
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

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

9. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
Soma
Violent Passion Surrogate
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Helmholtz Watson

10. What is the motto of the World State?
He writes a poem about solitude
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Community. Identity. Stability.

11. How does the Solidarity Service end?
With an orgy
He writes a poem about solitude
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

12. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The Falkland Islands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

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

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

15. Why is Helmholtz first criticized by the World State authorities?
'A gramme is better than a damn'
He writes a poem about solitude
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Epsilons

16. What does 'V.P.S.' stand for?
He conducted scientific experiments
Violent Passion Surrogate
His physique
With an orgy

17. In Brave New World - sexual play between children is...
He writes a poem about solitude
To bring rain
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Encouraged

18. What does Soma symbolize?
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
The Bokanovsky Process
The Director
Orgy-Porgy

19. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
She is horrified
Tomakin
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Epsilons

20. How does Lenina react to observing the Savage religious ritual?
She is horrified
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
Helmholtz Watson
He conducted scientific experiments

21. How does the Solidarity Service end?
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Orgy-Porgy
With an orgy
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

22. What does Linda call The D.H.C.?
Epsilons
Tomakin
Khaki
'plenty of pleasant vices.'

23. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
Soma
The Director
New Mexico

24. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
A society of Alphas is unworkable
New Mexico

25. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?
John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
The D.H.C.
Both feel alienated from World State society

26. How does Bernard convince Lenina to go on a date with him?
Because she slept with their husbands
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
Excessive soma intake
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

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

28. What are the institutions responsible for hatching the human beings of Huxley's world?
Soma
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He writes a poem about solitude
A society of Alphas is unworkable

29. Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to...
The Falkland Islands
Epsilons
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.
'A gramme is better than a damn'

30. Early in the novel - Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior.What is Lenina's fault - as Fanny sees it?
Violent Passion Surrogate
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
He whips himself
A society of Alphas is unworkable

31. Where is the Savage Reservation located?
John
New Mexico
Violent Passion Surrogate
Bernard Marx

32. What did Mustapha Mond do that almost got him exiled to an island?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
He conducted scientific experiments
'plenty of pleasant vices.'
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.

33. What color do delta babies always wear?
Soma
Khaki
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

34. Who does not sleep with Lenina?
A society of Alphas is unworkable
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Director
To bring rain

35. What is the lesson of the Cyprus experiment described by Mustapha Mond?
The Director
He conducted scientific experiments
A society of Alphas is unworkable
His participation in a soma-driven orgy

36. What does Soma symbolize?
Britian
He writes a poem about solitude
John
The powerful influence of science and technology on society.Instant gratification to control.

37. What two hypnopaedic lessons are the children in the Nursery learning during the boys' tour of the Hatchery?
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
His physique
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness
Bernard Marx

38. Mustapha Mond tells John that civilizations have to choose between God and...
With an orgy
Machinery and medicine and happiness
The Falkland Islands
Five

39. What was the first book that John read as a child?
Excessive soma intake
Three Weeks in a Helicopter
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
The Director

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

41. How long does Lenina date Henry Foster?
By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers
Four months
'Suffer the children'
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

42. Where does Brave New World take place?
The Bokanovsky Process
Encouraged
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Britian

43. What hymn is sung at the Solidarity Service that Bernard attends?
Both feel alienated from World State society
Orgy-Porgy
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

44. Which character shows contempt for the social control devices of the state?
Encouraged
He whips himself
Bernard Marx
'A gramme is better than a damn'

45. What is the name of the feely that John watches on his date with Lenina?
The Bokanovsky Process
It shows human emotion - such as passion - that the World State is trying to eliminate.
Because she slept with their husbands
Three Weeks in a Helicopter

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

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

48. What is the name of the process that allows the Hatchery to produce many clones from a single egg?
By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation
The Bokanovsky Process
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo

49. What motivates John's suicide at the end of the novel?
Britian
A quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
His participation in a soma-driven orgy
Bernard Marx

50. Who is John's father?
Because 'every one belongs to every one else'
Lenina is not promiscuous enough.
The Director
The D.H.C.