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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 odd thing does Snowman see from the watch tower?

2. When Snowman is on the rampart, how is the weather?

3. What is at the entrance to RejoovenEsense?

4. Where does Snowman believe that he will find food?

5. What keeps the animals from attacking Snowman when he is inside the watch tower on the compound?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the author effective in building suspense when Snowman arrives at the compound?

2. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How is irony present in the novel? What role does irony play in the story? What evidence of this is there?

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