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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 thinks of Linda and the Deltas as they line up for the soma distribution?
(a) Relieved
(b) Without a backbone
(c) Enslaved
(d) Happy

2. Where does John see people laughing at savages confessing their sins to Jesus?
(a) Control
(b) Eton School
(c) Factory
(d) Provost

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

4. How does John die?
(a) Patricide
(b) Old age
(c) Suicide
(d) Homicide

5. Who does Bernard blame for snubbing him?
(a) Arch-Community-Songster
(b) John
(c) Helmholtz
(d) Lenina

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

7. What does John tell Bernard he would rather be than have fake happiness?
(a) Soma induced
(b) Happy
(c) Miserable
(d) Unhappy

8. What analogy does the controller use to describe the optimum population?
(a) Soma
(b) An iceberg
(c) Island of Cypress
(d) The human body

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

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

11. Why does Lenina feel that she is getting some of the fame under false pretenses?
(a) Bernard did all of the work
(b) She did not agree to bring him back
(c) She has not slept with John
(d) She is scared of John

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does John repeatedly say in his grief that confuses the twins?

3. What kind of treatment causes the person to feel empty and experience nausea?

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

5. How long does the doctor predict Linda will last with her constant soma-holidays?

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