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

2. Who does the director have with him to meet with Bernard?
(a) Henry Foster
(b) Helmholtz
(c) Mustapha Mond
(d) Lenina

3. How do John and Lenina travel?
(a) Taxi copter
(b) Helicopter
(c) Cab
(d) Walking

4. Which word describes how the controller felt at Bernard's suggestions about social order?
(a) Intrigued
(b) Outraged
(c) Reinforced
(d) Suspect

5. How does John die?
(a) Homicide
(b) Old age
(c) Patricide
(d) Suicide

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does John move?

3. Which word describes how the director looks when he sees Linda for the first time after she has returned from the reservation?

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

5. In what name did John throw out the soma?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Lenina go to John's apartment?

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

4. What does the controller admit to John, Bernard and Helmholtz in relation to books?

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

6. Why does Linda call John Pope?

7. In what ways does the director indicate Bernard has grossly betrayed the trust of the society?

8. What does Helmholtz do as he presses his way through the crowd?

9. Describe how Lenina feels when she leaves the party with the Arch-community-songster.

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

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