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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What approaches Snowman's tree at night?
(a) Pigoons.
(b) Wolvogs.
(c) Snats.
(d) Rakunks.

2. What animals cannot be hunted?
(a) Those that are sacred to Oryx.
(b) Those that are sacred to Crake.
(c) Those that are sacred to Snowman.
(d) Those that are sacred to Killer.

3. As a child, what does Jimmy believe his only friends are?
(a) Oryx.
(b) Pigoons.
(c) His parents.
(d) Ducks.

4. What is Jimmy's former pet?
(a) A genetically modified racoon.
(b) A genetically modified squirrel.
(c) A genetically modified cat.
(d) A genetically modified skunk.

5. Which word best describes Jimmy's mother's personality?
(a) Emotionally unstable.
(b) Clever.
(c) Unavailable.
(d) Caring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of ritual do the males perform each morning?

2. What is the author's purpose in the first two sections of the novel?

3. Where has Snowman been sleeping?

4. Why doesn't it matter that Snowman does not know what time it is?

5. What do the new humans ask Snowman about when they bring him fish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theories do you have about how the world has ended up this way?

2. Are Jimmy and Crake good friends for each other? Why or why not?

3. Describe the Crakers.

4. What can the reader infer about the creatures that Snowman encounters?

5. How does Jimmy's family foreshadow the future?

6. Why are the animals being burned in the bonfire that Snowman remembers?

7. How is suspense created in the beginning of the novel before the reader is introduced to the specific details of Snowman's world?

8. Why does Snowman cry when leaving the Crakers?

9. What things is Snowman scared of?

10. Why does Jimmy ("Snowman") believe that the nickname "Abominable Snowman" fits him?

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