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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 Snowman plan to tell the Crakers regarding what he saw that is a message from Crake?

2. What animals does Snowman try to scare away at the RejoovenEsense compound?

3. What is Snowman's overall destination?

4. What does Snowman take to wear from the home on the compound?

5. How does Bernice protest animal abuse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Snowman tell the Crakers that they are in a dream?

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

3. What is represented in Snowman leaving the radio behind?

4. What is the significance of Amanda's project?

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

6. What kills the people that Snowman finds in the house he visits?

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

8. What is Oryx's role in Jimmy's relationships?

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

10. Describe the interactions between Jimmy and Crake in college.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How is suspense built in the novel? Provide at least three specific examples from the novel to make your point clear.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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