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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 is Jimmy majoring in?

2. What does CorpSeCorps question Jimmy about?

3. What language does the first man speak on the radio that Snowman finds?

4. When do people in Crake's dome die?

5. What is the occupation of Jimmy's live-in girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the weather. Why does it change like this?

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

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

4. What is Oryx's role in Crake's project?

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

6. How is Oryx unlike the women that Jimmy meets in college?

7. What is the significance of Crake's nightmares?

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

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

10. Describe the pleeblands.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Crake shows what he thinks about language by changing it drastically. Metaphors can no longer be used because the Crakers do not understand them. Why do you think Crake intended on changing language so drastically?

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