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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 prevents people in the civilization from having children?
(a) Other place
(b) Malthusian drill
(c) Abortion centre
(d) Alcohol

2. Which of the following did Lenina propose that she and Bernard complete on their first date?
(a) Swim
(b) DHC tour
(c) Trip to the north pole
(d) Savage reservation visit

3. Which of the following best describes how Bernard feels?
(a) Superior
(b) Outsider
(c) Inferior
(d) Insider

4. Which type of education does the Director indicate should never be rational?
(a) Moral education
(b) Conditioning education
(c) Hypnopaedia education
(d) Social education

5. Where does this story take place?
(a) Washington
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From which play does John quote while he watches Lenina sleep?

3. What does the quiet voices under every pillow encourage the children in the Elementary Class Consciousness exhort the children to be happy with?

4. Where do Lenina and Bernard plan to go?

5. What was often the only thing John was left with to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Helmholtz tell Bernard the DHC made public while he was away?

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

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

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

5. Why do you think Lenina takes so many tablets of soma when she returns to the rest house?

6. What type of behavior does the director accuse Bernard of displaying?

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

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

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

10. What horrifies Lenina about the Indian guide?

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