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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 has the most high-caste workers
(d) It is the closest

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

3. Why does Lenina assume John will not come out of his room?
(a) Because he is afraid of her
(b) Because she slept with Bernard
(c) Because he does not like her
(d) Because he does not want to sleep with her

4. 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 is welcome to them
(c) He must go live with Helmholtz
(d) He cannot be miserable

5. 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

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

7. Which of the following is not a descriptor the controller would use to describe the world now?
(a) Happy
(b) Passionate
(c) Stable
(d) Well Off

8. What does John compare the Delta's coming off of shift to?
(a) Maggots
(b) Flies
(c) Twins
(d) Worms

9. Which of the following phrases does John call Lenina after he pushes her away?
(a) Insolent strumpet
(b) Sassy woman
(c) Presumptuous whore
(d) Impudent strumpet

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

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

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

13. When Linda awakens what does she say that upsets John?
(a) Tells him to leave
(b) Calls him Pope
(c) Tells him of how wonderful the new civilization is
(d) Asks him to belong to no one ever

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Helmholtz to become a marked man?

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

3. The controller and John debate over whether or not the belief in God is what?

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

5. What does the music box play to calm the crowd?

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