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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 happens to Jimmy's former pet?
(a) Jimmy accidentally kills it.
(b) Crake sets it free.
(c) His dad kills it.
(d) His mom "liberates" it.

2. What social issue do Jimmy and Crake discuss?
(a) The dangers of child prostitution.
(b) That children are unsafe.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Poor education.

3. What is Snowman's purpose for going on the journey?
(a) To find food.
(b) To find a gun.
(c) To jog his memory.
(d) To find a notebook to use as a journal.

4. What is the author's purpose in the first two sections of the novel?
(a) To build suspense.
(b) To show the way Crake has changed life.
(c) To give the reader a moral message.
(d) To flashback to the past.

5. What types of names do many of the Crakers have?
(a) Those of food.
(b) Those of internet websites.
(c) Those of kitchen appliances.
(d) Those of historical figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oryx renamed by her owner?

2. How does the boy get injured?

3. What does Snowman throw to scare away the animals that approach his tree at night?

4. Who does Snowman try to conjure before he goes to bed at night in his tree?

5. In Snowman's flashback, what does he ask Oryx about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Snowman feel about Crake?

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

3. Describe Oryx's childhood.

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

5. What can the reader assume about civilization and humanity in Chapter 1?

6. What laws has Snowman made? Why? How is he able to make laws?

7. How does Snowman feel when telling the Crakers stories about Crake?

8. How is suspense created in the beginning of the novel before the reader is introduced to the specific details of Snowman's world?

9. What has been eliminated from the human experience for the Crakers?

10. How does Snowman feel about Oryx?

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