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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. Who masterminds the virus that kills most of the humans?
(a) Crake.
(b) Oryx.
(c) Snowman.
(d) Ramona.

2. What does Snowman see in the airlock in Section 13?
(a) The remains of a group of Crakers.
(b) Weapons.
(c) The remains of Oryx and Crake.
(d) A journal.

3. How many dead bodies are inside the home on the compound that Snowman enters when he first arrives?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What is the focus of Jimmy's school?
(a) Creative writing.
(b) Visual arts.
(c) Digital art.
(d) Performing arts.

5. What is Jimmy majoring in?
(a) Problematics.
(b) Genography.
(c) History of modern dance.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jimmy's first roommate?

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

3. How many fish does Snowman plan to tell the Crakers that he needs to eat per week?

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

5. How does Crake die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How has Crake's experiment failed?

4. Describe Snowman's life following his mother's execution.

5. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

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

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

8. What is significant about the names of the people who work at Paradice?

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

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

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