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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lenina take John?
(a) Back to the reservation
(b) To the helicopter factory
(c) To the Eton school
(d) To the feelies

2. In what name did John throw out the soma?
(a) Death
(b) Linda
(c) Liberty
(d) Life

3. Where does John move?
(a) The reservation
(b) Bernard's apartment
(c) An old lighthouse
(d) An island alone

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

5. What scandalous behavior does John display when his mother dies?
(a) Has sex with her
(b) Cries
(c) Destroys all of the civilization's death-conditioning
(d) Boxes one of the twin's ears

6. What does John repeatedly say in his grief that confuses the twins?
(a) Hope
(b) God
(c) Love
(d) One is important

7. What does John do with the pillboxes filled with soma?
(a) Throws them into the crowd
(b) Takes the pills himself to overcome his grief
(c) Throws them out of the window
(d) Steals them for himself

8. Which word describes how John thinks of Linda and the Deltas as they line up for the soma distribution?
(a) Enslaved
(b) Relieved
(c) Happy
(d) Without a backbone

9. After John leaves Lenina, what does she do to get to sleep?
(a) Takes a long bath
(b) Drinks a shake
(c) Takes 3 half-gramme soma tablets
(d) Leaves to find Bernard

10. What do the people who come to stare at John chant they want to see?
(a) Violence
(b) Savage
(c) Whipping stunt
(d) Bow and arrow

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

12. How long does the doctor predict Linda will last with her constant soma-holidays?
(a) 1-2 years
(b) Unknown amount of time
(c) 1-2 months
(d) 1-2 weeks

13. Where does the director ask Bernard to meet him?
(a) Embryo store
(b) Nurseries
(c) Conditioning room
(d) Fertilizing room

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

15. What are the water pistols filled with the police use to help calm the crowd?
(a) Soma vapor
(b) Water
(c) Soma
(d) Anesthetic

Short Answer Questions

1. What right does the controller say that John is claiming?

2. What does John do with his Shakespeare book after Helmholtz bursts into laughter over some of the writing?

3. Which of the following best describes how Mustapha Mond responds to John's request for the inconveniences of life?

4. What happens to the director at the end of this chapter?

5. Where does John see people laughing at savages confessing their sins to Jesus?

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