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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. How many years after it was discovered was hypnopaedia officially used?

2. What is body mass been conditioned to represent?

3. What does Linda tell John the difference is between mescal and soma?

4. Which of the following is the result of the second lever thrown as the infants touch the materials put out by the nurses?

5. Where do Bernard and Lenina return after leaving the reservation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Lenina and Bernard surprised by John?

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

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

5. What did the conscription of consumption compell?

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

7. Why do you believe the Embryo store is found in the basement?

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

9. What happened to Linda which caused her great distress?

10. What horrifies Lenina about the Indian guide?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing how many of the characters of this novel are as imprisoned as the savages are on the reservation.

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