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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 painted animal is on Jimmy's boots as he walks through disinfectant?

2. What happens to Jimmy's father's computer?

3. When Snowman is in the forest, what does he worry about?

4. Who does Snowman try to conjure before he goes to bed at night in his tree?

5. What types of names do many of the Crakers have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the Crakers bore Snowman?

3. Why does Sharon leave? Why does Sharon destroy the computers?

4. What is Crake's opinion on poverty?

5. In what ways is Oryx a pawn? What does this foreshadow?

6. Why don't the children know what a real Snowman is?

7. What can the reader infer about the pleeblands since they are labeled as "unsafe"?

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

9. Why does Jimmy ("Snowman") believe that the nickname "Abominable Snowman" fits him?

10. Why does Snowman cry when leaving the Crakers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are flashbacks used in Oryx and Crake to keep the plot's action continuing? What would the novel be like without flashbacks? Why are they so vital to the story?

Essay Topic 2

Is Oryx a pawn in the novel? Why or why not? Do you think that Margaret Atwood is trying to send a message to the reader by doing this?

Essay Topic 3

What role does foreshadowing play in Oryx and Crake? What indicators of foreshadowing are in the novel? What is foreshadowed early on in the novel?

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