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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) To the feelies
(b) To the helicopter factory
(c) To the Eton school
(d) Back to the reservation

2. What does John call the director when he sees him for the first time?
(a) DHC
(b) Dad
(c) Father
(d) Director

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

4. What amazes the nurse who is caring for John's mother?
(a) That he bothers to come to visit his mother
(b) That he is actually her child
(c) That he puts such importance on a single person
(d) That he is as young as he is

5. What does John say poisoned him?
(a) Mustard
(b) Wickedness
(c) Civilization
(d) Water

6. Why does the director choose this area for the meet?
(a) It is where he works himself
(b) It is an area Bernard is afraid of
(c) It is the closest
(d) It has the most high-caste workers

7. What right does the controller say that John is claiming?
(a) The right to return to the reservation
(b) The right to be loved
(c) The right to be unhappy
(d) The right to die

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

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

10. What does Linda announce that causes everyone to fall silent?
(a) He made her have a baby
(b) She loved him
(c) He loved her
(d) He is her only one

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

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

13. Which of the following words is an accurate description of how John responds when Lenina strops off her clothes?
(a) Punches her
(b) Hides from her
(c) Retreats in terror
(d) Becomes aroused

14. What does the music box play to calm the crowd?
(a) Anti-riot speech number two
(b) Voice of reason speech number two
(c) Anti-riot speech number one
(d) Voice of reason speech number one

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following has not been described by the controller as something that has paid a high price for happiness?

2. How do the workers react to all of the events with Linda, John and the director?

3. What does Helmholtz call Shakespeare?

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

5. When Linda awakens what does she say that upsets John?

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