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1:  What is the motto of the World State?

a. Integrity. Ability. Destiny.

b. Reproduction. Socialization. Acceptance.

c. Community. Identity. Stability.

d. Control. Acceptance. Peacefulness.
2:  Early in the novel, Fanny Crowne lectures Lenina for her unacceptable social behavior. What is Lenina’s fault, as Fanny sees it?

a. Lenina is “too pneumatic.”

b. Lenina is not promiscuous enough.

c. Lenina is consuming too much soma.

d. Lenina is not dedicated enough to the World State.
3:  What do people believe to be the cause of Bernard’s strange character?

a. Unsuccessful hypnopaedia

b. Excessive soma intake

c. Alcohol in his blood surrogate

d. Violent temper disorder
4:  What are Delta children, who are created for rote factory work, taught to dislike?

a. Their biological mothers

b. Science and math

c. Animals and nature

d. Flowers and books
5:  Mustapha Mond is one of the ten World Controllers. Which of the following does not represent his position on forbidden books?

a. He owns many of them himself.

b. He enjoys reading them in secret.

c. He believes they must be suppressed.

d. He worships the flames that engulf them in regular public book burnings.
6:  Which brave new world drug does Mustapha Mond describe as “Christianity without tears”?

a. Sex-hormone chewing gum

b. Soma

c. Peyote

d. Violent passion surrogate
7:  What is the origin of the title Brave New World?

a. A quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest

b. A reference to the Bible

c. A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

d. A reference to Swift’s Gullilver’s Travels
8:  Who is John’s father?

a. Popé

b. Mustapha Mond

c. Mitsima

d. The D.H.C.
9:  Bernard and Helmholtz are banished to

a. the Falkland Islands

b. New Mexico

c. New Zealand

d. Trinidad
10:  What does Linda call The D.H.C.?

a. The Savage

b. The Director

c. Tomakin

d. Doctor
11:  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.”

a. John

b. Helmholtz Watson

c. The D.H.C.

d. Linda
12:  Who said the following: “Don’t you want to be free and men? Don’t you even understand what manhood and freedom are?”

a. Lenina Crowne

b. Mustapha Mond

c. John

d. The D.H.C.
13:  Who said the following: “Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resists them.”

a. World Controller Mustapha Mond when he sentences Bernard and Helmholtz to exile

b. Huxley, on the challenge of the future in Brave New World Revisited

c. John the Savage, as he detects the footsteps of the Greater Being

d. Bernard Marx, shortly before he imbibes in an alcohol-laced blood surrogate


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