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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 does John think has happened when he goes to the rest house and no one answers?

2. How does Bernard feel at the end of chapter five?

3. Of what caste level was the girl who the director took to the savage reservation?

4. What statement did children begin getting at age five according to Bernard?

5. What color doe the laborers wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would the D.H.C. be furious with Lenina according to Fanny?

2. What is the aim of mass production as described in Chapter 1?

3. In what ways are an egg's normal growth checked?

4. What does the Director indicate is the secret to being happy and virtuous?

5. How does Lenina feel when Bernard flushes when she brings up their New Mexico plans?

6. Why wasn't John able to marry the girl that he loved on the reservation?

7. What does Henry remark as he and Lenina overlook the crematorium?

8. What does the Director say that a love of nature is for they lower castes?

9. Why is Bernard mocked by his peers?

10. What statement in chapter four does Lenina make which is an unconscious echo of one of the many hypnopaedic lessons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss in a complete essay, using examples from the text, how the author uses foreshawdowing throughout the novel to develop the plot and content of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Describe in detail, with examples from the text, in what ways and manner Helmholtz has sacrificed himself personally and how he changes that throughout the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing the division of the classes throughout the novel. Use examples from the text and make a judgment of the benefits and detractions of this type of divided class system.

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