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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 Jimmy lose interest in after learning about his mother's fate?

2. What is the occupation of the man who locked up Oryx?

3. What do the Crakers say that the woman smelled like?

4. What language does the first man speak on the radio that Snowman finds?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the interactions between Jimmy and Crake in college.

3. Describe the pleeblands.

4. What are the major differences between Snowman and the Crakers?

5. How has Crake's experiment failed?

6. What is represented in Snowman leaving the radio behind?

7. What kills the people that Snowman finds in the house he visits?

8. How do the Crakers get the idea to build a symbol?

9. How is Oryx unlike the women that Jimmy meets in college?

10. Describe the weather. Why does it change like this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the title Oryx and Crake relevant to the novel's story? Who is the story about? Is that shown in the title? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, Snowman has thoughts and flashbacks that involve both Oryx and Crake. What does Jimmy think of these two? What emotions does he feel for the other two characters?

Essay Topic 3

How is irony present in the novel? What role does irony play in the story? What evidence of this is there?

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