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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Lenina and Henry do after dinner?
(a) Dance
(b) Play games
(c) Read
(d) Read

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

5. Which of the following is not an accurate descriptor for the figures who test the embryos for sex in the embryo store?
(a) Purple eyes
(b) Symptoms of lupus
(c) Alphas
(d) Coral teeth

6. What happened to the girl that John loved?
(a) She waited and waited for him
(b) She married someone else
(c) She threw stones at him
(d) She called him bad names

7. Which of the following was a little boy of Polish speaking parents who lived with "Our Ford" while still on earth?
(a) Ivan Pavlov
(b) The Director
(c) Mustapha Mond
(d) Reuben Rabinovich

8. What did John do to Pope when he found Pope stretched out on the bed beside his mother?
(a) Stabbed him in the shoulder
(b) Killed him
(c) Stabbed him in the stomach
(d) Shot him in the shoulder

9. Which of the following did Lenina propose that she and Bernard complete on their first date?
(a) Savage reservation visit
(b) DHC tour
(c) Swim
(d) Trip to the north pole

10. Where did Linda work when she was in the civilization?
(a) Embryo room
(b) Director's office
(c) Infants room
(d) Fertilizing room

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

12. What has isolated Helmholtz?
(a) Emotional status
(b) Physical stature
(c) Writing
(d) Mental excess

13. What prevents people in the civilization from having children?
(a) Abortion centre
(b) Alcohol
(c) Other place
(d) Malthusian drill

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

15. Which of the following is the lowest caste of embryos?
(a) Epsilons
(b) Deltas
(c) Betas
(d) Gammas

Short Answer Questions

1. What is passed around as they say, " I drink to my annihilation" at the Solidarity Service?

2. What is the purpose of the games according to the Director?

3. What does Linda tell John the difference is between mescal and soma?

4. How do Henry and Lenina travel?

5. What does John do when he sees Lenina's suitcase through the window?

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