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

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

3. What does Oryx teach the Crakers about?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Plants and animals.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Psychology.

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

5. What is the real purpose of the prophylactic pill?
(a) To encourage mating.
(b) Social anomy.
(c) Population control.
(d) To re-educate society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does CorpSeCorps show Jimmy a video of?

2. When do people in Crake's dome die?

3. What does Oryx want to study?

4. Who masterminds the virus that kills most of the humans?

5. What does Snowman realize is missing from the building that he enters to escape the twister?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Crake's experiment failed?

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

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

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

5. Describe the pleeblands.

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

(see the answer keys)

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