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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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

(A) The Podansky Process

(B) The Trotsky Process

(D) Centrifugal Bumble-puppy

2. The term for birth in the Hatchery is

(A) Social predestination

(B) Uncorking

(D) Decanting

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

(A) By preventing the children from ever seeing books or flowers

(B) By using hypnopaedia to teach them that books and flowers are worthless

(D) By sounding alarms and shocking the children when they approach books or flowers

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

(A) Elementary Sex and Elementary Class Consciousness

(B) Elementary Fordism and Elementary Class Consciousness

(D) Elementary Sex and Elementary Soma

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

(A) Because she thinks Lenina is lonely

(B) Because “every one belongs to every one else”

(D) Because she thinks Bernard Marx is attractive

6. Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends?

(A) Both feel alienated from World State society

(B) Both are committed to trying to change the World State

(D) They are friends for no particular reason

7. How does the Solidarity Service end?

(A) With singing and large doses of soma

(B) With an orgy

(D) With a series of hypnopaedic lessons

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

(A) By inviting her to visit a Savage Reservation

(B) By telling her that she is “pneumatic”

(D) She does not need to be convinced; he simply asks

9. Where is the Savage Reservation located?

(A) New Mexico

(B) Nevada

(D) Arizona

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

(A) She is horrified

(B) She is fascinated

(D) She ignores it

11. Which one of the following World State sayings has to do with soma?

(A) “Everyone is happy now”

(B) “Progress is lovely”

(D) “Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to- day”

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

(A) To bring rain

(B) To initiate the young men of the pueblo into adulthood

(D) To improve community cohesion

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

(A) Because she slept with their husbands

(B) Because she did not speak their language

(D) Because she insulted them

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

(A) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

(B) Milton's Paradise Lost

(D) Orwell's 1984

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

(A) Three Weeks in a Helicopter

(B) A Gramme a Day

(D) Love in the Sky

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

(A) John refuses to meet Bernard's dinner guests

(B) John tries to convince a crowd of Deltas not to take soma

(D) Bernard sends Mustapha Mond a letter criticizing the World State

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

(A) He writes a poem about solitude

(B) He writes a poem criticizing the World State

(D) He spends too much time with Bernard

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

(A) A society of Alphas is unworkable

(B) Life on a Savage Reservation can destroy any amount of conditioning

(D) Soma is a necessary component of a stable society

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

(A) He conducted scientific experiments

(B) He criticized the World State

(D) He visited a Savage Reservation

20. Mustapha Mond says that “You can't have a lasting civilization without . . .”

(A) “plenty of pleasant vices.”

(B) “soma.”

(D) “stability and happiness.”

21. What does “V.P.S.” stand for?

(A) Vigorous Panic Surrogate

(B) Viviparous Pregnancy Surrogate

(D) Vivid Passion Surrogate

22. After retreating to the lighthouse, what does John do that first attracts the reporters?

(A) He cries for his mother

(B) He calls Lenina's name

(D) He plants a garden

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

(A) Linda's death

(B) His unrequited love for Lenina

(D) His participation in a soma-driven orgy

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

(A) Soma

(B) Stability and strength

(D) Technology and progress

25. Of the following, who does not sleep with Lenina?

(A) Bernard

(B) Benito

(D) Henry

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