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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jimmy's former pet?

2. Who does Snowman pretend to ask for stubble for the children?

3. What does Snowman say his stubble is when the children ask about it?

4. What job does Jimmy's father have?

5. What happens to the afternoon weather in Snowman's location?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Crakers bore Snowman?

2. How does Snowman feel about Oryx?

3. What is Crake's opinion on poverty?

4. How does Snowman feel when telling the Crakers stories about Crake?

5. What can the reader infer about the creatures that Snowman encounters?

6. How does Jimmy's family foreshadow the future?

7. What can the reader assume about civilization and humanity in Chapter 1?

8. What laws has Snowman made? Why? How is he able to make laws?

9. Why does Snowman tell the children that he has feathers instead of stubble?

10. What theories do you have about how the world has ended up this way?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When reading Oryx and Crake, how is the reader encouraged to be active, as opposed to passive? Provide at least one specific example from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

How is irony present in the novel? What role does irony play in the story? What evidence of this is there?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the novel's climax. What does the climax mean for Snowman and the Crakers?

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