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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose books does John often read by not necessarily understand?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Huxley
(c) Keats
(d) Shaw

2. What does the leader of the dance get from the chest and throw from person to person?
(a) Feathers
(b) Cloths
(c) Drums
(d) Snakes

3. At what age do the citizens of the civilization reach their end?
(a) 70
(b) 60
(c) 80
(d) 50

4. Where does this story take place?
(a) New York
(b) Washington
(c) Paris
(d) London

5. Which of the following is not a descriptive term the Controller uses to describe home?
(a) Rabble of children
(b) Obscene relationships
(c) Unemotional
(d) Stifling rooms

6. What does John do when he sees Lenina's suitcase through the window?
(a) He uses a rock to break the window
(b) He sits and waits for her to wake up
(c) He knocks louder to awaken her
(d) He leaves and plans to return later

7. Where do Bernard and Lenina return after leaving the reservation?
(a) World Controller's Office
(b) The rest house
(c) The other place
(d) Linda's hut

8. Where does Bernard need to go to contact Mustapha Mond?
(a) Savage Reservation
(b) London
(c) Washington
(d) Santa Fe

9. What does Lenina wish she had while on the reservation?
(a) The director
(b) Benito
(c) More time to spend on the reservation
(d) Soma

10. Who was Lenina going to the north pole with?
(a) Bernard
(b) Fanny
(c) Director
(d) Benito

11. Whom does Bernard go to pick up?
(a) Director
(b) Controller
(c) Lenina
(d) Helmholtz

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

13. What did Lenina hear one night when she awoke as a child which at first shocked her?
(a) Sexophonists
(b) Voices under her pillow
(c) Nurses talking
(d) Director speaking of Epsilons

14. Which of the following groups of people are not divided into about seventy-two identical embryos?
(a) Betas
(b) Deltas
(c) Alphas
(d) Gammas

15. What type of play does one boy, who will now have to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology, refuse to do?
(a) Join in the appropriate class
(b) Join in the game of centrifugal bumble-puppy
(c) Join in the hypnopaedia
(d) Join in ordinary erotic play

Short Answer Questions

1. What is served with the coffee when Lenina and Henry eat in the dining hall?

2. Who do the necessary orders sent to to permit Linda and John to return to the 'other place?

3. Why did the director and the girl have to stay in the mountains overnight?

4. What does Bernard do during the night?

5. What does the quiet voices under every pillow encourage the children in the Elementary Class Consciousness exhort the children to be happy with?

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