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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. How do the workers react to all of the events with Linda, John and the director?
(a) They laugh
(b) They yell
(c) They cheer
(d) They throw stones

2. What scandalous behavior does John display when his mother dies?
(a) Boxes one of the twin's ears
(b) Has sex with her
(c) Cries
(d) Destroys all of the civilization's death-conditioning

3. What does John do with his Shakespeare book after Helmholtz bursts into laughter over some of the writing?
(a) Throws it away
(b) Burns it
(c) Tears it apart and destroys it
(d) Locks it away

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

5. Why does Lenina assume John will not come out of his room?
(a) Because he is afraid of her
(b) Because he does not want to sleep with her
(c) Because he does not like her
(d) Because she slept with Bernard

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bernard blame for snubbing him?

2. What happens to the director at the end of this chapter?

3. Which of the following does the controller indicate is incompatible with happiness?

4. Which character becomes newly confident and lets some success go to his head?

5. Which of the following has not been described by the controller as something that has paid a high price for happiness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does John push Lenina away when she kisses him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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