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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 school is comparable to the Watson-Crick Institution?

2. When Snowman is on the rampart, how is the weather?

3. What keeps the animals from attacking Snowman when he is inside the watch tower on the compound?

4. What is Jimmy's involvement with the prophylactic pill?

5. How many dead bodies are inside the home on the compound that Snowman enters when he first arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Snowman hope to gain from the humans that the Crakers have seen?

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

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

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

6. Describe the pleeblands.

7. How has Crake's experiment failed?

8. What is the significance of the note that Jimmy left behind?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the radio that Snowman finds a symbol? What does it symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How is suspense built in the novel? Provide at least three specific examples from the novel to make your point clear.

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