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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Lenina feel about the savage reservation?
(a) Is excited by visiting it
(b) Wants to move to it
(c) Likes it
(d) Doesn't like it

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

4. Why does Bernard want Helmholtz to go by his home?
(a) To check on his apartment
(b) To turn off the tap of eau de cologne
(c) To check on the director's plan to send him to Iceland
(d) To pack his things so he can move to the reservation

5. What was often the only thing John was left with to eat?
(a) Soma
(b) Mescal
(c) Cold tortillas
(d) Antelope

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

7. Which of the following is a major instrument of social stability according to the director?
(a) Stabilization
(b) Arrested development
(c) Budding
(d) Bokanovsky's process

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

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

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

11. What do the sexophonists sound like?
(a) Moaning cats
(b) Saxophones wailing
(c) Dogs howling
(d) People singing

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

13. Who fathered John?
(a) Helmholtz
(b) Bernard
(c) Director
(d) Benito

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes how Lenina views Bernard in chapter six?

2. What statement did children begin getting at age five according to Bernard?

3. Which of the following is an average range of embryos which develop from one egg?

4. How does Bernard feel at the end of chapter five?

5. How do Solidarity Services generally end?

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