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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The controller and John debate over whether or not the belief in God is what?
(a) Necessary
(b) Motivating
(c) Extrinsic
(d) Intrinsic

3. What amazes the nurse who is caring for John's mother?
(a) That he is actually her child
(b) That he bothers to come to visit his mother
(c) That he puts such importance on a single person
(d) That he is as young as he is

4. How do the workers react to all of the events with Linda, John and the director?
(a) They throw stones
(b) They laugh
(c) They yell
(d) They cheer

5. What happens to the director at the end of this chapter?
(a) He yells at Bernard
(b) He rushes out of the room
(c) He denies everything
(d) He attacks Bernard

6. How does John die?
(a) Patricide
(b) Suicide
(c) Homicide
(d) Old age

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

8. What does John call the director when he sees him for the first time?
(a) Father
(b) DHC
(c) Dad
(d) Director

9. What does the director accuse Bernard of doing?
(a) Betraying the trust given to him
(b) Obeying Our Ford alone
(c) Fathering a child
(d) Traveling to the Savage Reservation

10. When Linda awakens what does she say that upsets John?
(a) Tells him to leave
(b) Tells him of how wonderful the new civilization is
(c) Asks him to belong to no one ever
(d) Calls him Pope

11. Which of the following best describes how Mustapha Mond responds to John's request for the inconveniences of life?
(a) He cannot be miserable
(b) He must go live with Helmholtz
(c) He is welcome to them
(d) He cannot have them

12. What happened to the DHC after John fell to his knees and called him father?
(a) He attacked Bernard
(b) He took John into his home
(c) He was promoted
(d) He resigned

13. What analogy does the controller use to describe the optimum population?
(a) An iceberg
(b) Island of Cypress
(c) Soma
(d) The human body

14. Which word describes how John thinks of Linda and the Deltas as they line up for the soma distribution?
(a) Happy
(b) Enslaved
(c) Without a backbone
(d) Relieved

15. Where does the director ask Bernard to meet him?
(a) Fertilizing room
(b) Nurseries
(c) Embryo store
(d) Conditioning room

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say poisoned him?

2. Which of the following is not one of the areas the controller says that God isn't compatible with?

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

4. Which word best describes how the guests feel about Bernard when John refuses to come out of his room for the party?

5. Which of the following words is an accurate description of how John responds when Lenina strops off her clothes?

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