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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 twins doing in his mother's hospital room?

2. Which of the following characters tells Lenina to go to John and have him, not taking no for an answer?

3. What kind of treatment causes the person to feel empty and experience nausea?

4. What does John say poisoned him?

5. What does the director accuse Bernard of doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the people who listen to Bernard's ideas on the flaws in society feel about his ideas?

2. Why does John begin whipping himself?

3. What does the controller admit to John, Bernard and Helmholtz in relation to books?

4. How does John view everyone in the new civilization?

5. In what ways does the director indicate Bernard has grossly betrayed the trust of the society?

6. What does Helmholtz do as he presses his way through the crowd?

7. Why does Linda call John Pope?

8. What do the metal knobs on the chairs at the feelies do?

9. What happened, as the controller described, on the island of Cypress when it was inhabited with nothing but Alphas?

10. What question does Helmholtz wonder how it made people who read Shakespeare's work excited?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing why consumption is an important value in this novel. Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Describe in detail, with examples from the text, a Solidarity Service.

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