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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 do the Crakers say that the woman smelled like?
(a) Citrus.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

2. What keeps the animals from attacking Snowman when he is inside the watch tower on the compound?
(a) A door.
(b) Trees that have been knocked down.
(c) Stairs.
(d) A gate.

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

4. What does Snowman plan to tell the Crakers regarding what he saw that is a message from Crake?
(a) A burning bush.
(b) A talking animal.
(c) A dream.
(d) A written note.

5. What does Snowman see in the building that he enters when he sees the twister?
(a) Dead guards.
(b) Dead animals.
(c) Weapons.
(d) A stockpile of food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Crake suggest for Jimmy when Jimmy comes to work for him?

2. Where has Oryx been living when she is featured on the news?

3. What is evidence that Crake's experiment has failed?

4. What does Snowman tell the Crakers to call the shore?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the name of the dome (Paradice) significant?

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

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

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

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

6. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

7. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

8. How has Crake's experiment failed?

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

10. What are the similarities between Snowman's life now and in the past?

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