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What is the most undesirable sentiment?
Chronic Remorse
What are the two choices for the Savage?
Insane life in Utopia or primitive life.
What does the author say is the cause of the Savage's suicide?
His retreat from sanity.
What does the author say is the point of religion?
the pursuit of "Man's Final End"
What kind of fuel power is not mentioned in Brave New World?
Nuclear Fission
The Marquess of Landowne wanted World War I to end in what manner?
A compromise
The goal of government is to make people love their _.
servitude
What problem must be addressed to make people love their government?
The Problem of Happiness
As political and economic freedom decreases, what increases in a BNW?
Sexual promiscuity
Wintriness responded to by wintriness. These words describe what room?
The Laboratory
What scientific technique is the major instrument of social stability?
Bokanovsky's Process
Name five types of humans produced.
Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons
Roses and books are examples of what technique?
Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning
Who is Mustapha Mond?
Scientist and World Controller for Western Europe
How long does a pregnancy substitute last?
3 months
It is rumored that Bernard Marx has too much of this ingredient in his blood.
Alcohol
What do smoke stacks with balconies catch?
Phosphorus
The first solidarity hymn could also be called what name?
Orgy-Porgy
What tap did Bernard leave running?
Scent Tap
What is unusual about babies on the reservation?
They are Born
Bernard will be sent to what country?
Iceland
- Civilization is ?
Sterilization
What is in the hair of some people on the reservation?
Feathers
What reservation woman originated from the Other Place?
Linda
What great author's works did Linda have?
Shakespeare
Who uses the words, "Brave New World"?
John
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to do what with people?
Lead them astray
Who was the father of John?
The DHC
Because of his knowledge of the lineage of John, who is now a man of many titles?
Bernard
Who gives the children a box on the ears?
John
Who (their professional title, not name) is scandalized by John kneeling at the bed of his mother?
The Nurse
To John, what is the poison to the soul as well as the body?
Soma
What group of people come running into the room goggle-eyed and swine-snouted in gas-masks?
The police
John tells the Controller that what drama is better than the feelies?
Othello
Also according to Mond, what concept must be sacrificed to achieve happiness?
High Art
In this society, what two qualities do all people have to keep them distracted right up to their deaths, "…enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?"
Soma and Youthful Desires
To Mond, what concept is not compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness?
God
To Mond, Christianity without tears is a definition for what product?
Soma
Who is Darwin Bonaparte?
The Feely Corporation photographer.
What condition is fascinating horror to the crowd?
John’s self-punishment