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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. Where does this story take place?

2. What was the name of the character who gave Linda mescal often?

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

4. Which of the following is the lowest caste of embryos?

5. Why is Bernard permitted to visit the Savage Reservation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the definition of hypnopaedia?

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

5. Why wasn't John able to marry the girl that he loved on the reservation?

6. What does the Director indicate is the secret to being happy and virtuous?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay describing in what way John's whipping is a sign of his wanting to repent. Include in your essay what John is repenting for as well as specific examples to support your thesis.

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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