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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. What type of play does one boy, who will now have to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology, refuse to do?

2. What makes John rush outside after watching Lenina sleep for awhile?

3. Why is Bernard uncomfortable dealing with the lower castes?

4. What does Bokanovsky's process create?

5. Where did Lenina and Bernard finally go on their first date?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

6. What does Helmholtz wonder as they sit on Bernard's couch in his apartment?

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

8. What horrifies Lenina about the Indian guide?

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

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

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

After his mother dies, John feels unwanted and alone. Write an essay explaining how and why John feels this way. Use information and specific details from the text to support your answer.

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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