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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is able to, surprisingly, quote from Shakespeare?
(a) Bernard
(b) John
(c) Mustapha Mond
(d) Helmholtz

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

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

4. 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

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

6. What causes Helmholtz to become a marked man?
(a) His friendship with Bernard
(b) His friendship with the savage
(c) A lecture on the savage
(d) A lecture with rhymes on solitude

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

8. What does Linda call herself when she sees the DHC for the first time?
(a) His Linda
(b) His wife
(c) Linda
(d) His lover

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Which word describes how the controller felt at Bernard's suggestions about social order?
(a) Outraged
(b) Reinforced
(c) Suspect
(d) Intrigued

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helmholtz call Shakespeare?

2. Where were John, Bernard and Helmholtz taken after the riots?

3. What does John do with the pillboxes filled with soma?

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

5. What does John talk about which horrifies Lenina?

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