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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people at the Solidarity Service invite the Greater Being to do?
(a) Annihilate them
(b) Move them
(c) Save them
(d) Reinforce them

2. What does John do when he sees Lenina's suitcase through the window?
(a) He knocks louder to awaken her
(b) He sits and waits for her to wake up
(c) He uses a rock to break the window
(d) He leaves and plans to return later

3. What do the sexophonists sound like?
(a) Moaning cats
(b) People singing
(c) Saxophones wailing
(d) Dogs howling

4. What type of play does one boy, who will now have to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology, refuse to do?
(a) Join in the game of centrifugal bumble-puppy
(b) Join in the appropriate class
(c) Join in the hypnopaedia
(d) Join in ordinary erotic play

5. The process of an egg's normal growth is checked with X-rays, cold, and alcohol it is called?
(a) Bokanovsky's process
(b) Budding
(c) Stabilization
(d) Arrested development

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lenina feel about the savage reservation?

2. What are the Suggestions from the State?

3. Where does Bernard call to tell the story of Linda and John?

4. Where did Lenina and Bernard finally go on their first date?

5. How many tablets of soma does Lenina take before going to bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bernard do after the the Solidarity service ends?

2. How does Lenina feel when Bernard flushes when she brings up their New Mexico plans?

3. What were some of the things Linda told John about 'the other place'?

4. What statement in chapter four does Lenina make which is an unconscious echo of one of the many hypnopaedic lessons?

5. What chant is said over and over as the group at the Solidarity Service dances in a circle slapping each other's bottoms?

6. What event makes Lenina sob after witnessing at the savage reservation?

7. What does the Director indicate is the secret to being happy and virtuous?

8. What questions are difficult for Linda to answer when John has asked them?

9. Why is it difficult for the students to imagine what it is like to live with one's family?

10. Why would the D.H.C. be furious with Lenina according to Fanny?

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