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

2. Which of the following characters notices Lenina's growing sadness and makes suggestions on possible treatments?
(a) John
(b) Fanny
(c) Helholtz
(d) Henry

3. What do John, Helmholtz and Bernard often do together?
(a) Write poetry
(b) Make fun of others
(c) Read from Shakespeare
(d) Take soma

4. What right does the controller say that John is claiming?
(a) The right to return to the reservation
(b) The right to be loved
(c) The right to be unhappy
(d) The right to die

5. Which word describes how John felt about the feelies?
(a) Disliked
(b) Liked
(c) Ignored
(d) Frightened

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people who come to stare at John chant they want to see?

2. What does Linda announce that causes everyone to fall silent?

3. What does John repeatedly say in his grief that confuses the twins?

4. Who does Henry Foster tell that the DHC had been on the verge of transferring Bernard to Iceland?

5. Which of the following characters do the police not take away after the riot at the soma distribution line?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the metal knobs on the chairs at the feelies do?

2. What does the controller indicate has all of the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona without the inconveniences?

3. What question does Helmholtz wonder how it made people who read Shakespeare's work excited?

4. What has the new civilization eliminated, which the controller then indicates requires no need for religion?

5. How does John view everyone in the new civilization?

6. What was the feelies about which Lenina and John watched together?

7. What does the director say is the greatest offense, which Bernard has committed?

8. Describe how the director responds to Linda and John.

9. Why does the crowd begin to mimic John's whipping gestures toward each other?

10. What happened, as the controller described, on the island of Cypress when it was inhabited with nothing but Alphas?

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