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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. Whose books does John often read by not necessarily understand?
(a) Shaw
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Huxley
(d) Keats

2. Where do Lenina and Bernard plan to go?
(a) Russia
(b) New Mexico
(c) Detroit
(d) Italy

3. What is the purpose of the games according to the Director?
(a) Increase conservation
(b) Decrease conservation
(c) Decrease consumption
(d) Increase consumption

4. Where did Lenina and Bernard finally go on their first date?
(a) Women's heavyweight wrestling championship
(b) Swimming
(c) DHC tour
(d) Savage reservation visit

5. What is soma?
(a) Instrument
(b) Drink
(c) Hallucinogenic drug
(d) Food

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in the coyote mask do to the young boy of about eighteen?

2. What did John do to Pope when he found Pope stretched out on the bed beside his mother?

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

4. What does the Controller say that 'Our Ford' called himself whenever he was speaking of psychology?

5. What did Linda say mescal was similar to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Bernard mocked by his peers?

2. What horrifies Lenina about the Indian guide?

3. What has replaced the pursuit of knowledge by the end of chapter five?

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

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

6. What does the Director say that a love of nature is for they lower castes?

7. What is the aim of mass production as described in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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