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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 does John talk about which horrifies Lenina?
2. What does John do with the pillboxes filled with soma?
3. Where does John see people laughing at savages confessing their sins to Jesus?
4. How does the nurse distract the twins while John is by his dead mother's bed?
5. Which of the following has not been described by the controller as something that has paid a high price for happiness?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens with the guests when John refuses to come out of his room?
2. What does Helmholtz do as he presses his way through the crowd?
3. What does John remember as he sits beside his mother's hospital bed before she awakens and talks to him?
4. Why does John push Lenina away when she kisses him?
5. What does the controller indicate has all of the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona without the inconveniences?
6. What has the new civilization eliminated, which the controller then indicates requires no need for religion?
7. What question does Helmholtz wonder how it made people who read Shakespeare's work excited?
8. What was the feelies about which Lenina and John watched together?
9. Describe how Lenina feels when she leaves the party with the Arch-community-songster.
10. In what ways does the director indicate Bernard has grossly betrayed the trust of the society?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 in detail how this novel is an example of a dystopia. Use specific examples from the novel to support your description.
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