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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 are the Suggestions from the State?

2. What is the aim of mass production?

3. Which of the following items in Lenina's suitcase awes John?

4. What is served with the coffee when Lenina and Henry eat in the dining hall?

5. What worried Lenina when she was in Bernard's room with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event makes Lenina sob after witnessing at the savage reservation?

2. What did the conscription of consumption compell?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the definition of hypnopaedia?

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

9. Describe the game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

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 a comparison essay comparing the characters of John and Bernard throughout the novel. Be sure to draw comparisons from all aspects of the novel as the characters change and develop throughout the story.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how emotions of the characters are a critical component of the development of the story and scenes within the novel. Be sure to include specific examples from the text to support your description.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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