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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the games according to the Director?
(a) Increase consumption
(b) Decrease conservation
(c) Increase conservation
(d) Decrease consumption

2. What worried Lenina when she was in Bernard's room with him?
(a) That she was feeling too much
(b) That they did not have enough soma
(c) That he was too gloomy
(d) That she was too plump

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

4. What makes John rush outside after watching Lenina sleep for awhile?
(a) Lenina awaiting him
(b) Stones being thrown at the windows
(c) Bernard calling him
(d) Sound of a helicopter

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

6. 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 game of centrifugal bumble-puppy
(b) Join in the hypnopaedia
(c) Join in ordinary erotic play
(d) Join in the appropriate class

7. Where does the director indicate he will send Bernard if there are more complaints about him?
(a) Santa Fe
(b) London
(c) Iceland
(d) North pole

8. What is Mustapha Mond's position?
(a) Resident controller for Western Europe
(b) Bottling controller
(c) Pregnancy substitute
(d) Director

9. Of what caste level was the girl who the director took to the savage reservation?
(a) Alpha-plus
(b) Beta-plus
(c) Beta-minus
(d) Alpha-minus

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

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

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

13. What does Bernard do during the night?
(a) Leaves in the helicopter
(b) Formulates his plan
(c) Zones out on soma
(d) Sleeps

14. Why is Bernard uncomfortable dealing with the lower castes?
(a) He is unhappy
(b) He is much taller than them
(c) He is not taller than them
(d) He is not smarter than them

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe Helmholtz Watson?

2. Whom does Bernard go to pick up?

3. Which of the following is not an accurate descriptor for the figures who test the embryos for sex in the embryo store?

4. Why are the masses conditioned to hate the country but love all country sports?

5. Which of the following is a major instrument of social stability according to the director?

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