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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. How does Snowman get cut?
(a) A broken picture frame.
(b) A soda bottle.
(c) A bourbon bottle.
(d) An animal scratch.

2. What is the occupation of the man who locked up Oryx?
(a) Writer.
(b) Genologist.
(c) Pharmacist.
(d) Geographer.

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

4. What are the Crakers doing around the structure they have built?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Praying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Eating.

5. What is the nickname of the Watson-Crick Institution?
(a) Neurotypical U.
(b) Skeptic's U.
(c) Asperger's U.
(d) Multiple Personality U.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Craker who tells Snowman that other humans passed through?

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

3. When Jimmy spends the night in Crake's room, what wakes him up in the middle of the night?

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

5. What is the real purpose of the prophylactic pill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is it significant that Snowman sees smoke in the distance?

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

7. Describe the pleeblands.

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

9. How has Crake's experiment failed?

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

(see the answer keys)

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