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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Lenina propose that she and Bernard complete on their first date?

2. Where is the savage reservation located?

3. What on the reservation reminds Lenina of the Solidarity services?

4. What game are the children playing when he takes his tour group outside?

5. What are the Suggestions from the State?

Short Essay Questions

1. What adjectives did John use to identify with Pope?

2. What does Helmholtz tell Bernard the DHC made public while he was away?

3. What does Lenina say was a bunch of dangerous nonsense?

4. What horrifies Lenina about the Indian guide?

5. What event makes Lenina sob after witnessing at the savage reservation?

6. Why would the D.H.C. be furious with Lenina according to Fanny?

7. What does the Director say the babies will develop as related to flowers and books?

8. In what ways are an egg's normal growth checked?

9. What did the conscription of consumption compell?

10. Why do you think that John quotes Romeo and Juliet when he was watching Lenina sleep?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing why consumption is an important value in this novel. Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay discussing the use of conditioning in your own life in comparison to how it is used in the novel. Use both personal experiences and specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay, using information from the text and from your own personal experience, to address the statement posed by the controller that without misery, there is no need for religion, which is just another moral conditioning program.

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