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Brave New World Vocab 1 Quiz

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Lenina looked flirtingly at Bernard Marx in her usual _________________ way.

a)

coquettish

b)

indefatigable

2.

Lenina had a sudden ______________ fear that the hotel would not be equipped with a wall television.

a)

portentous

b)

sententious

3.

Bernard Marx ________________ avoided discussing many of the Community practices that he disagreed with.

a)

furtively

b)

suffusively

4.

The Director's warning to Bernard was the opposite of _______________ and was actually quite threatening.

a)

decorous

b)

largesse

5.

Since there was no comedy in the Community, it would be quite strange if someone told a _____________ joke about defecation.

a)

scatalogical

b)

portentous

6.

Many of the men in the locker room _____________ at the thought of "having" Lenina.

a)

relished

b)

suffused

7.

Henry Foster is the most ____________ character in the book, boring Lenina with his complaining about planes being late.

a)

portentous

b)

sententious

8.

All of the people (except Bernard Marx) seem to have the _________________ of a happy, perfect life.

a)

largesse

b)

semblance

9.

If a community member had a ______________ appearance, it would be assumed that there was alcohol put in their blood surrogate.

a)

pallid

b)

ascetic

10.

While the Community did believe in some discipline, their lives could not really be described as ________________.

a)

ascetic

b)

scatalogical

11.

The blood surrogate was ______________ with hog's stomach extract and fetal foal's liver.

a)

relished

b)

suffused

12.

Bernard's efforts at making Lenina see the beauty of the night sky were _________________; he never gave up trying to get her to notice.

a)

indefatigable

b)

coquettish

13.

In keeping with the styles and conventions of the Community, Lenina's _______________ Malthusian belt was both stylish and practical.

a)

sententious

b)

decorous