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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the necessary orders sent to to permit Linda and John to return to the 'other place?
(a) Bernard
(b) World controller's office
(c) Director
(d) Warden

2. How many tablets of soma does Lenina take before going to bed?
(a) 6
(b) 12
(c) 5
(d) 1

3. What did Linda say mescal was similar to?
(a) Dessert
(b) Soma
(c) Alcohol
(d) Drugs

4. What is the aim of mass production?
(a) Decrease the population
(b) Increase the number of men
(c) Stabilize the population
(d) Create utopia

5. Which of the following best describes how Bernard feels?
(a) Superior
(b) Inferior
(c) Outsider
(d) Insider

6. What does the abbreviation D.H.C. stand for?
(a) Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
(b) Dispatching Hatcheries and Conditions
(c) Director of Hatching and Conditions
(d) Dispatching Hatching and Conditions

7. What does the quiet voices under every pillow encourage the children in the Elementary Class Consciousness exhort the children to be happy with?
(a) The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time
(b) The colors of the various castes
(c) Praise of the model T
(d) The role they have been given

8. What does Bernard have every other Thursday?
(a) Recreation time
(b) Solidarity service
(c) Soma-holiday
(d) Orgy-porgy

9. Which of the following does NOT describe Helmholtz Watson?
(a) Highly intelligent
(b) Emotional engineer
(c) Unattractive
(d) Lecturer

10. Which of the following is considered a threat to the State?
(a) Individual thought
(b) Happiness
(c) Emotions
(d) Monogamy

11. Which type of education does the Director indicate should never be rational?
(a) Social education
(b) Moral education
(c) Conditioning education
(d) Hypnopaedia education

12. Why is Bernard permitted to visit the Savage Reservation?
(a) His job requires him to be there daily
(b) Lenina requests to go there
(c) The director has ordered him to go there
(d) He is an alpha plus psychologist

13. What indicates the change of shifts?
(a) 2000 electric clocks and voices calling
(b) 4000 electric clocks and voices calling
(c) 4000 voices calling and some electric clocks
(d) 2000 voices calling and some electric clocks

14. What does Linda tell John the difference is between mescal and soma?
(a) Mescal makes you feel happier when you take it
(b) Mescal makes you feel sick in the morning
(c) Soma makes you feel happier when you take it
(d) Soma makes you feel sick in the morning

15. What symbol does the Director make on his stomach when speaking of "Our Ford"?
(a) Sign of a T
(b) Sign of a cross
(c) Sign of an F
(d) Sign of an H

Short Answer Questions

1. Hypnopaedia refers to which principle?

2. How does Lenina feel about the savage reservation?

3. What can be found set out by nurses in the infant nurseries?

4. Of what caste level was the girl who the director took to the savage reservation?

5. What game are the children playing when he takes his tour group outside?

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