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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) Ramona.
(b) Oryx.
(c) Snowman.
(d) Crake.

2. When Snowman is on the rampart, how is the weather?
(a) Warm, but cloudy.
(b) Snowy and cold.
(c) Hot and sunny.
(d) Rainy and humid.

3. What is the name of the dome?
(a) Paradice.
(b) Haven.
(c) Watson-Crick.
(d) Harvard.

4. What sound does Snowman hear as he approaches the village?
(a) Chanting.
(b) Screeching.
(c) Crooning.
(d) Screaming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Crake been doing for a living?

2. What does Snowman do to the people who are infected on the road?

3. What does Jimmy lose interest in after learning about his mother's fate?

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

5. What does Oryx want to study?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

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

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

10. How do the Crakers get the idea to build a symbol?

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