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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 type of education does the Director indicate should never be rational?

2. Why does Bernard want Helmholtz to go by his home?

3. How long after the first T-Model was put on the market was hypnopaedia discovered?

4. What happened to the girl that John loved?

5. What did John do to Pope when he found Pope stretched out on the bed beside his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bernard do after the the Solidarity service ends?

2. What questions are difficult for Linda to answer when John has asked them?

3. What does Henry remark as he and Lenina overlook the crematorium?

4. What type of behavior does the director accuse Bernard of displaying?

5. Why are Lenina and Bernard surprised by John?

6. Why do you think Lenina takes so many tablets of soma when she returns to the rest house?

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

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

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

10. Why is it difficult for the students to imagine what it is like to live with one's family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Describe in detail, with examples from the text, a Solidarity Service.

Essay Topic 3

Describe, using specific examples from the novel, how the character of Bernard could be described accurately as a coward.

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