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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 is Jimmy's involvement with the prophylactic pill?
(a) He helped create the pill.
(b) He uses the pill.
(c) He runs the ad campaign.
(d) He helps sell the pill.

2. What does Snowman tell the Crakers to call the shore?
(a) Village.
(b) Pleeblands.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Home.

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

4. What is evidence that Crake's experiment has failed?
(a) The Crakers are not dying early in age.
(b) The Crakers have started naming themselves.
(c) The structure the Crakers have built.
(d) The Crakers learned to read.

5. What is the occupation of Jimmy's live-in girlfriend?
(a) Artist.
(b) Lab technician.
(c) Writer.
(d) Genographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Jimmy and Crake go in the pleeblands several times?

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

3. Where does Snowman spend his first night of the journey?

4. What does CorpSeCorps question Jimmy about?

5. How does Snowman explain the situation to the Crakers as they leave the dome?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

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

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

9. How has Crake's experiment failed?

10. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

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