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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 does Snowman fear when the lights go out inside the building?
(a) Crakers.
(b) Rats.
(c) Dead guards.
(d) Snakes.

2. What is a secret effect of the prophylactic pill?
(a) Weight gain.
(b) Sterilization.
(c) Baldness.
(d) Death.

3. When do people in Crake's dome die?
(a) When they are 40-years-old.
(b) When they are 30-years-old.
(c) When they are 20-years-old.
(d) When they reproduce.

4. How does Snowman monitor the Crakers before he leads them to a new home?
(a) By video camera.
(b) He had others check on them.
(c) He used a radio.
(d) He lived with them.

5. What is Jimmy's involvement with the prophylactic pill?
(a) He runs the ad campaign.
(b) He helps sell the pill.
(c) He helped create the pill.
(d) He uses the pill.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the flashback, how long has Jimmy been working at Anoo Yoo?

2. What do the group of unknown humans run toward when the Crakers expose themselves?

3. What does Snowman shout into the radio?

4. What does Crake give Jimmy before they go to the pleeblands?

5. What is the nickname of the Watson-Crick Institution?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Snowman tell the Crakers that they are in a dream?

2. What is Jimmy's job at the library symbolic of?

3. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

4. Snowman has a weird feeling about the home he visits on the compound. Describe these feelings.

5. What is the significance of Amanda's project?

6. What is Oryx's role in Crake's project?

7. What are Snowman's feelings about humanity now that most have died?

8. Is the author effective in building suspense when Snowman arrives at the compound?

9. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

10. What are the similarities between Snowman's life now and in the past?

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