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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 happens when John tried to join in the ceremonies?

2. Where does Bernard need to go to contact Mustapha Mond?

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

4. Which of the following is the best definition of precipice as it is used in this chapter?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mustapha Monda agree to Bernard's plan?

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

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

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

5. What statement in chapter four does Lenina make which is an unconscious echo of one of the many hypnopaedic lessons?

6. What did the conscription of consumption compell?

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

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

9. What is the definition of hypnopaedia?

10. Why are Lenina and Bernard surprised by John?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss in a complete essay, using examples from the text, how the author uses foreshawdowing throughout the novel to develop the plot and content of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Describe why an emphasis on promiscuity came to be in this novel. After your description make a judgment as to your opinion of this emphasis. Use information from the text to support your judgment.

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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