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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were John, Bernard and Helmholtz taken after the riots?
(a) World controller's office
(b) Iceland
(c) Reservation
(d) Alpha camp

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

3. Which character becomes newly confident and lets some success go to his head?
(a) Bernard
(b) Helmholtz
(c) John
(d) Linda

4. What kind of treatment causes the person to feel empty and experience nausea?
(a) Soma treatment
(b) Fertilization treatment
(c) Reservation treatment
(d) Violent passion surrogate treatment

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the music box play to calm the crowd?

2. When Linda awakens what does she say that upsets John?

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

4. What does John do with his Shakespeare book after Helmholtz bursts into laughter over some of the writing?

5. What right does the controller say that John is claiming?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the director say is the greatest offense, which Bernard has committed?

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

4. What does the controller indicate has all of the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona without the inconveniences?

5. What has the new civilization eliminated, which the controller then indicates requires no need for religion?

6. Describe the difference between murder and what Bernard has done as described by the director.

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

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

9. Why does Linda call John Pope?

10. Describe why Bernard blames John for his feelings.

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