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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word describes how John felt about the feelies?
(a) Disliked
(b) Frightened
(c) Liked
(d) Ignored

2. Which word best describes how the guests feel about Bernard when John refuses to come out of his room for the party?
(a) Furious
(b) Anxious
(c) Regretful
(d) Relieved

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

4. 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

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

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

7. What does John do with his Shakespeare book after Helmholtz bursts into laughter over some of the writing?
(a) Burns it
(b) Throws it away
(c) Tears it apart and destroys it
(d) Locks it away

8. What is the doctor thankful to be able to study in Linda?
(a) Senility
(b) Obesity
(c) Drug abuse
(d) Weight loss

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

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

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) Hatred
(d) Excitement

12. Who does the director have with him to meet with Bernard?
(a) Mustapha Mond
(b) Helmholtz
(c) Henry Foster
(d) Lenina

13. The controller and John debate over whether or not the belief in God is what?
(a) Extrinsic
(b) Motivating
(c) Necessary
(d) Intrinsic

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

15. Why wouldn't the controller allow John to go with Bernard and Helmholtz?
(a) He wants him to work in the controller's office
(b) He wants to return to the reservation
(c) He wants to go on with the experiment
(d) He has other plans for John

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lenina feel that she is getting some of the fame under false pretenses?

2. Which character becomes newly confident and lets some success go to his head?

3. Which word describes how the controller felt at Bernard's suggestions about social order?

4. What are the twins doing in his mother's hospital room?

5. What are the water pistols filled with the police use to help calm the crowd?

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