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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 are the Crakers doing around the structure they have built?

2. What is Jimmy majoring in?

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

4. What does Snowman burn at the dome in present day?

5. How many fish does Snowman plan to tell the Crakers that he needs to eat per week?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Crake's experiment failed?

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

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

4. Describe the pleeblands.

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

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

7. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

8. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the way dreams are a motif in the novel. Why are dreams so important, and how is this shown?

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

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?

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