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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the first reformers offer to deliver them from?
(a) Debt
(b) Conservation
(c) Pain
(d) Emotions

3. 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 ordinary erotic play
(c) Join in the game of centrifugal bumble-puppy
(d) Join in the hypnopaedia

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

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

6. What does John's mother smell like to Lenina?
(a) Dirt
(b) Alcohol
(c) Flowers
(d) Sweat

7. In what way does Henry say that everyone is equal?
(a) Physico-chemically
(b) Emotionally
(c) Socially
(d) Physically

8. When John was fifteen what skill was taught to him?
(a) How to read
(b) How to work in clay
(c) How to prepare food
(d) How to hunt

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

10. From which play does John quote while he watches Lenina sleep?
(a) The Tempest
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) Macbeth
(d) Julius Caesar

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

12. Where is the savage reservation located?
(a) Iceland
(b) London
(c) Santa Fe
(d) North pole

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

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

15. What color doe the laborers wear?
(a) Brown
(b) Olive green
(c) Khaki
(d) Black

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word(s) best describes how John feels on the reservation?

3. Which of the following is the result of the second lever thrown as the infants touch the materials put out by the nurses?

4. Whom does Bernard go to pick up?

5. Which of the following is not a descriptive term the Controller uses to describe home?

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