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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 Oryx want to study?
(a) Biology.
(b) Child psychology.
(c) Writing.
(d) Filmmaking.

2. In what month does Jimmy graduate from high school?
(a) June.
(b) February.
(c) December.
(d) May.

3. How does Crake die?
(a) A security guard shoots him.
(b) He is killed by a Craker.
(c) Jimmy shoots him.
(d) He is attacked by a wild animal.

4. Where does Snowman take the Crakers when they leave the dome?
(a) To an old compound.
(b) To the pleeblands.
(c) To the forest.
(d) To the shore.

5. What does Jimmy lose interest in after learning about his mother's fate?
(a) Eating.
(b) School.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snowman fear when the lights go out inside the building?

2. What causes Snowman to go back into the gatehouse?

3. Why are the Crakers purring around Snowman?

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

5. When Snowman leaves the compound and is walking back to the Crakers, what does he think about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the pleeblands.

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

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

7. What is Oryx's role in Jimmy's relationships?

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

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

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

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