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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 does Helmholtz call Shakespeare?
(a) Great writer
(b) Poet
(c) Propaganda technician
(d) Lover

2. What does the director accuse Bernard of doing?
(a) Fathering a child
(b) Betraying the trust given to him
(c) Obeying Our Ford alone
(d) Traveling to the Savage Reservation

3. Who does Henry Foster tell that the DHC had been on the verge of transferring Bernard to Iceland?
(a) Lenina
(b) Head mistress of Eton
(c) Arch-Community-Songster
(d) John

4. What analogy does the controller use to describe the optimum population?
(a) The human body
(b) Island of Cypress
(c) Soma
(d) An iceberg

5. Which of the following characters tells Lenina to go to John and have him, not taking no for an answer?
(a) Henry
(b) Fanny
(c) Helmholtz
(d) John

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the water pistols filled with the police use to help calm the crowd?

2. Who does the director have with him to meet with Bernard?

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

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

5. What happened to the DHC after John fell to his knees and called him father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bernard begin to point out to those that will listen?

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

3. Why does John begin whipping himself?

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

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

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

7. Describe why Bernard blames John for his feelings.

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

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

10. Why does Linda call John Pope?

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