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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. What is the name of one of Jimmy's hand puppets?
(a) Righteous Dad.
(b) Crazy Dad.
(c) Evil Dad.
(d) Smart Dad.

2. As a child, what does Jimmy believe his only friends are?
(a) Oryx.
(b) Ducks.
(c) His parents.
(d) Pigoons.

3. What causes Jimmy's parents to argue that he is reminded of by the bonfire?
(a) Jimmy's father started a fire in the backyard.
(b) Jimmy cut his father's hair and set it on fire.
(c) Jimmy accidentally set the house on fire.
(d) Jimmy cut his hair and set it on fire.

4. What word does Jimmy invent?
(a) Rakunk.
(b) Corknut.
(c) Snat.
(d) Pigoon.

5. What does Snowman drink water out of?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Beer bottles.
(c) A seashell.
(d) Pepsi cans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jimmy's mother?

2. What objects do the children bring Snowman from the ocean?

3. What does Snowman wrap himself in to start the day?

4. What does the camera man teach Oryx?

5. What does Snowman say his stubble is when the children ask about it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Oryx's childhood.

2. Why does Snowman feel no lust for women?

3. What things is Snowman scared of?

4. How does Crake insult Jimmy?

5. What can the reader infer about the creatures that Snowman encounters?

6. Why does Sharon leave? Why does Sharon destroy the computers?

7. Describe the Crakers.

8. Why are the animals being burned in the bonfire that Snowman remembers?

9. In what ways is Oryx a pawn? What does this foreshadow?

10. Why does Snowman tell the children that he has feathers instead of stubble?

(see the answer keys)

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