View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes how the guests feel about Bernard when John refuses to come out of his room for the party?
(a) Furious
(b) Relieved
(c) Regretful
(d) Anxious

2. Which of the following is not one of the areas the controller says that God isn't compatible with?
(a) Love
(b) Machinery
(c) Medicine
(d) Universal happiness

3. After John leaves Lenina, what does she do to get to sleep?
(a) Takes a long bath
(b) Drinks a shake
(c) Takes 3 half-gramme soma tablets
(d) Leaves to find Bernard

4. What does Helmholtz call Shakespeare?
(a) Lover
(b) Poet
(c) Great writer
(d) Propaganda technician

5. Where does John move?
(a) The reservation
(b) An old lighthouse
(c) Bernard's apartment
(d) An island alone

6. In what name did John throw out the soma?
(a) Death
(b) Linda
(c) Liberty
(d) Life

7. What does John do with his Shakespeare book after Helmholtz bursts into laughter over some of the writing?
(a) Burns it
(b) Throws it away
(c) Locks it away
(d) Tears it apart and destroys it

8. Which of the following is not a treatment suggested to Lenina to overcome her growing saddness?
(a) Soma
(b) Pregnancy substitute
(c) Violent passion surrogate treatment
(d) Having John

9. Which of the following has not been described by the controller as something that has paid a high price for happiness?
(a) God
(b) Science
(c) Love
(d) Art

10. What does the music box play to calm the crowd?
(a) Anti-riot speech number two
(b) Voice of reason speech number one
(c) Voice of reason speech number two
(d) Anti-riot speech number one

11. Where does John see people laughing at savages confessing their sins to Jesus?
(a) Control
(b) Provost
(c) Factory
(d) Eton School

12. Which of the following does the controller say floods the system with adrenaline to reproduce the complete physiological effects of fear and rage?
(a) Anti-violent conditioning speeches
(b) Tonic
(c) Soma
(d) Violent passion surrogate

13. Where does Lenina take John?
(a) To the Eton school
(b) Back to the reservation
(c) To the feelies
(d) To the helicopter factory

14. Which of the following does the controller indicate is incompatible with happiness?
(a) Wars
(b) Truth
(c) Science
(d) Art

15. Which word describes how the controller felt at Bernard's suggestions about social order?
(a) Suspect
(b) Reinforced
(c) Intrigued
(d) Outraged

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word describes how the director looks when he sees Linda for the first time after she has returned from the reservation?

3. Who does the director have with him to meet with Bernard?

4. What do John, Helmholtz and Bernard often do together?

5. How does the nurse distract the twins while John is by his dead mother's bed?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 441 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample