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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was often the only thing John was left with to eat?
(a) Soma
(b) Antelope
(c) Mescal
(d) Cold tortillas

2. What can be found set out by nurses in the infant nurseries?
(a) Rose petals and bright books
(b) Bright books alone
(c) Whistles and rose petals
(d) Rose petals alone

3. What does Bernard do during the night?
(a) Zones out on soma
(b) Formulates his plan
(c) Sleeps
(d) Leaves in the helicopter

4. What does the leader of the dance get from the chest and throw from person to person?
(a) Feathers
(b) Drums
(c) Snakes
(d) Cloths

5. What was the name of the character who gave Linda mescal often?
(a) John
(b) Pope
(c) Bernard
(d) Kiva

6. What does John's mother call the people she has been living with?
(a) Savages
(b) Friends
(c) Lunatics
(d) Lovers

7. What does the quiet voices under every pillow encourage the children in the Elementary Class Consciousness exhort the children to be happy with?
(a) The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time
(b) The colors of the various castes
(c) The role they have been given
(d) Praise of the model T

8. What do Lenina and Henry do after dinner?
(a) Dance
(b) Read
(c) Play games
(d) Read

9. Where is the savage reservation located?
(a) Santa Fe
(b) Iceland
(c) North pole
(d) London

10. What statement did children begin getting at age five according to Bernard?
(a) Everyone is free
(b) No one is happy
(c) Everyone is happy now
(d) Everyone is able to have a good time

11. What is body mass been conditioned to represent?
(a) Superiority
(b) Age
(c) Caste level
(d) Intelligence

12. What worried Lenina when she was in Bernard's room with him?
(a) That she was too plump
(b) That she was feeling too much
(c) That they did not have enough soma
(d) That he was too gloomy

13. What type of play does one boy, who will now have to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology, refuse to do?
(a) Join in the game of centrifugal bumble-puppy
(b) Join in ordinary erotic play
(c) Join in the hypnopaedia
(d) Join in the appropriate class

14. How does Lenina feel about the savage reservation?
(a) Wants to move to it
(b) Is excited by visiting it
(c) Likes it
(d) Doesn't like it

15. How does Bernard feel at the end of chapter five?
(a) Emptier than ever
(b) Peace of consummation
(c) Calm
(d) Rapturous

Short Answer Questions

1. What on the reservation reminds Lenina of the Solidarity services?

2. Which word best describes how Lenina views Bernard in chapter six?

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

4. What did John do to Pope when he found Pope stretched out on the bed beside his mother?

5. To whom does Bernard speak after telling his story several times?

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