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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 does the camera man teach Oryx?

2. What is Snowman's earliest memory of his life?

3. What time does Snowman believe it is as he turns inland?

4. How long does Snowman expect to be gone on his journey to the compound?

5. What is Snowman's purpose for going on the journey?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What has been eliminated from the human experience for the Crakers?

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

5. What is Crake's opinion on poverty?

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

7. Why are the animals being burned in the bonfire that Snowman remembers?

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

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

10. How is suspense created in the beginning of the novel before the reader is introduced to the specific details of Snowman's world?

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 do the pseudonyms presented become a motif in the novel? What do they tell us about the world Snowman lived in as a child and at the present?

Essay Topic 3

What is significant about Snowman's bonfire memory? What does Snowman think as a child when he sees the bonfire? Why is it significant to Snowman's current situation in the novel?

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