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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was inspired by which H.G. Wells novel?
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What drug do the inhabitants of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World habitually take?
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The mood altering drug at the heart of Aldous Huxley's false utopia, and the chief means by which the populace is held in check, was called...
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Who wrote Atlas Shrugged?
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Who, in 1930, wrote this passage?
"So terribly Jewish, in a word. That retching emotionalism, that sea-sickish spirituality - purely Hebraic. If only there were a few more Aryans in the world of music! The tears come into my eyes whenever I see a blonde beast at the piano."
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In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, after which two people is the character Bernard Marx named?
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Brave New World is by?
  
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In The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, the priest Urbain Grandier, accused for being in league with the devil, was burned at the stake for ...
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The popular Victorian novelist Mrs Humphrey Ward (Mary Augusta Ward), who wrote bestsellers such as Robert Elsmere, was closely related to which of these famous 19th-century poets?
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What utopian novel directly inspired Aldous Huxley to write his dystopian classic Brave New World?
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_____ is the term for birth in the Hatchery from Brave New World.
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After parodying his work and style in one of his publications, a certain novelist wrote in a contrite letter to Henry James: "To you literature like painting is an end, to me literature like architecture is a means, it has a use." Who was the novelist in question?
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What drug did Aldous Huxley request while on his deathbed?
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![Which book inspired Jim Morrison to name his band "The Doors"?
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Which book inspired Jim Morrison to name his band "The Doors"?
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The Doors got their name from a book from which author?
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Carl Jung was born on 26 July 1875. Three of the writers below were also born on 26 July -- which is the odd one out?
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Which of these writers is NOT pictured on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album?
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What book contains this famous quote? "Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
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Which author wrote a dystopian novel about a future where firemen burn books instead of put out fires?
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