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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 is not a descriptive term the Controller uses to describe home?

2. What does John's mother call the people she has been living with?

3. Why are the masses conditioned to hate the country but love all country sports?

4. Which of the following was a little boy of Polish speaking parents who lived with "Our Ford" while still on earth?

5. Whose idea was it to take John back to the 'other place'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has replaced the pursuit of knowledge by the end of chapter five?

3. Describe what is meant by the Suggestions from the State.

4. What chant is said over and over as the group at the Solidarity Service dances in a circle slapping each other's bottoms?

5. What were some of the things Linda told John about 'the other place'?

6. Why do you think John is awed by the smell of perfume and the sound of zippers?

7. What is the aim of mass production as described in Chapter 1?

8. What horrifies Lenina about the Indian guide?

9. What does Bernard say after he refuses the soma raspberry sundae Lenina offers him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Respond in writing using information from the text and your own personal experiences to answer which is the greater good: pursuit of truth or the good of the society.

Essay Topic 2

Write a comparison essay comparing the characters of John and Bernard throughout the novel. Be sure to draw comparisons from all aspects of the novel as the characters change and develop throughout the story.

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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