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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 the name of the virus that kills most of the humans?

2. What is the occupation of the man who locked up Oryx?

3. Why are the Crakers purring around Snowman?

4. What is Snowman's overall destination?

5. What does Oryx teach the Crakers about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Snowman's life following his mother's execution.

2. Why is it significant that Snowman sees smoke in the distance?

3. What does Snowman hope to gain from the humans that the Crakers have seen?

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

5. Snowman has a weird feeling about the home he visits on the compound. Describe these feelings.

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

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

8. Describe the pleeblands.

9. Why does Snowman take in the Crakers and lead them to safety?

10. What are Snowman's feelings about humanity now that most have died?

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 the radio that Snowman finds a symbol? What does it symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Crake and Jimmy. How are they similar? How do they change one another?

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