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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do John and Lenina travel?
(a) Taxi copter
(b) Cab
(c) Helicopter
(d) Walking

2. Which of the following best describes how Mustapha Mond responds to John's request for the inconveniences of life?
(a) He cannot have them
(b) He cannot be miserable
(c) He must go live with Helmholtz
(d) He is welcome to them

3. Where does the director propose Bernard should be transfered?
(a) The creamatorium
(b) Santa Fe
(c) Sub-Centre far from any centre of population
(d) The savage reservation

4. Which character does Bernard send reports too which agree with some of the Savage's ideas?
(a) DHC
(b) John
(c) Mustapha Mond
(d) Helmholtz

5. What does John talk about which horrifies Lenina?
(a) Pregnancy
(b) Soma
(c) Monogamy
(d) Marriage

6. What does Linda call herself when she sees the DHC for the first time?
(a) His wife
(b) His lover
(c) Linda
(d) His Linda

7. What are the twins doing in his mother's hospital room?
(a) Making up a game to make fun of John's mother
(b) Taunting John
(c) Laughing at John's mother
(d) Being death conditioned

8. Where were John, Bernard and Helmholtz taken after the riots?
(a) Alpha camp
(b) Iceland
(c) World controller's office
(d) Reservation

9. Which of the following ideas from Romeo and Juliet did Helmhotz find very obscene?
(a) Star-crossed lovers
(b) Mother and father
(c) Forcing love on someone
(d) Uncremated bodies

10. What does Helmholtz call Shakespeare?
(a) Poet
(b) Lover
(c) Propaganda technician
(d) Great writer

11. Which word describes how the director looks when he sees Linda for the first time after she has returned from the reservation?
(a) Disgust
(b) Love
(c) Excitement
(d) Hatred

12. Which of the following does the controller say floods the system with adrenaline to reproduce the complete physiological effects of fear and rage?
(a) Soma
(b) Violent passion surrogate
(c) Anti-violent conditioning speeches
(d) Tonic

13. Which of the following does the controller indicate is incompatible with happiness?
(a) Truth
(b) Wars
(c) Art
(d) Science

14. Which of the following characters notices Lenina's growing sadness and makes suggestions on possible treatments?
(a) John
(b) Helholtz
(c) Fanny
(d) Henry

15. How does the nurse distract the twins while John is by his dead mother's bed?
(a) With a book
(b) With a game
(c) With flowers
(d) With chocolate eclairs

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the director, what has Bernard attacked?

2. What analogy does the controller use to describe the optimum population?

3. In what name did John throw out the soma?

4. What is the doctor thankful to be able to study in Linda?

5. What scandalous behavior does John display when his mother dies?

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