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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 causes Helmholtz to become a marked man?
(a) His friendship with the savage
(b) A lecture on the savage
(c) His friendship with Bernard
(d) A lecture with rhymes on solitude

2. What does John do when he sees Lenina get out of the helicopter?
(a) Takes her hostage demanding to see Bernard and Helmholtz
(b) Beats Lenina then himself
(c) Tells her to leave rapidly
(d) Invites her into his lighthouse home

3. 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 die
(d) The right to be unhappy

4. What does John call the director when he sees him for the first time?
(a) DHC
(b) Father
(c) Director
(d) Dad

5. Which of the following words is an accurate description of how John responds when Lenina strops off her clothes?
(a) Punches her
(b) Hides from her
(c) Becomes aroused
(d) Retreats in terror

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John do with his Shakespeare book after Helmholtz bursts into laughter over some of the writing?

2. What does John tell Bernard he would rather be than have fake happiness?

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

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

5. Which word describes how the controller felt at Bernard's suggestions about social order?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Linda call John Pope?

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 do the people who listen to Bernard's ideas on the flaws in society feel about his ideas?

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

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

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

9. What happens with the guests when John refuses to come out of his room?

10. Describe the difference between murder and what Bernard has done as described by the director.

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