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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 does John think has happened when he goes to the rest house and no one answers?
(a) He thinks no one is home and is worried
(b) He thinks they have left without him
(c) He thinks they are hurt
(d) He thinks they are sleeping

2. At what age do the citizens of the civilization reach their end?
(a) 50
(b) 80
(c) 60
(d) 70

3. Why does Bernard want Helmholtz to go by his home?
(a) To turn off the tap of eau de cologne
(b) To check on the director's plan to send him to Iceland
(c) To pack his things so he can move to the reservation
(d) To check on his apartment

4. When John was fifteen what skill was taught to him?
(a) How to read
(b) How to work in clay
(c) How to hunt
(d) How to prepare food

5. What is served with the coffee when Lenina and Henry eat in the dining hall?
(a) Soma
(b) Cake
(c) Ice cream
(d) Orgy porgy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernard do during the night?

2. What statement did children begin getting at age five according to Bernard?

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

4. In what way does Henry say that everyone is equal?

5. Whose idea was it to take John back to the 'other place'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Helmholtz wonder as they sit on Bernard's couch in his apartment?

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

3. Why is Bernard mocked by his peers?

4. Why does Mustapha Monda agree to Bernard's plan?

5. What is the definition of hypnopaedia?

6. In what ways are an egg's normal growth checked?

7. Why do you think John is awed by the smell of perfume and the sound of zippers?

8. What happened to Linda which caused her great distress?

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

10. What does Bernard say after he refuses the soma raspberry sundae Lenina offers him?

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