Why do people take soma?

It makes them forget their problems.

Who is Mustapha Mond?

Resident World Controller for Western Europe

Why did John kill himself?

He had betrayed his own lofty ideals.

Which maxim is learnt by all citizens of the World State?

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Why does John want to travel to London?

Linda had told him so much about it.

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Huxley's Brave New World

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1
What is the name of Bernard's friend?
Heinrich Wattie
Helmholtz Watson
Hans Göbels
Walter Haussler
2
Who said, "It's such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man"?
John
Lenina
Fanny
Bernard
3
Who said, "I feel as though I were beginning to use that power I've got inside of me"?
Bernard
Mustapha
Helmholtz
John
4
Who is John's father?
Mustapha Mond
Benito Hoover
The Arch-Community-Songster
The Director of Hatcheries
5
What is the Bokanovsky process?
Social conditioning during sleep
Cloning an embryo
Social conditioning during gestation
Promiscious sexual conduct
6
What does Fanny implore Lenina to be?
More chaste
More magnanimous
More promiscuous
More pneumatic
7
Why do people take soma?
They have to.
For scientic research purposes.
They have nothing else to do.
It makes them forget their problems.
8
What is the lowest social caste in BNW?
Beta
Delta
Gamma
Epsilon
9
Who is Mustapha Mond?
The Arch-Community-Songster
Resident World Controller for Western Europe
Director of Hatcheries
10
What do John and Bernard have in common?
They both love Shakespeare.
They both have sex with Lenina.
They both hate Henry Foster.
They are both social misfits.
11
Why did John kill himself?
He was homesick.
He had betrayed his own lofty ideals.
Lenina rejected his advances.
He couldn't get hold of soma.
12
What are freemartins?
Alpha males
Factory workers
Sterilised women
People who have escaped
13
What decade was the novel published in?
1890s
1950s
1930s
1940s
14
What weekly ritual must citizens of the World State participate in?
Feelies
Orgy Porgy
Obstacle golf
Solidarity service
15
Which maxim is learnt by all citizens of the World State?
Everyone belongs to everyone else.
Everyone belongs.
Make love not war.
Everyone belongs to the World State.
16
Why does John want to travel to London?
He was having problems with his sex life.
Linda had told him so much about it.
To see the latest feelie.
He read about it in Shakespeare's plays.
17
How many World Controllers are there?
4
100
10
1
18
Where is John from?
Malpais
Singapore
USA
India

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