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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 school is comparable to the Watson-Crick Institution?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Brown.
(c) Yale.
(d) Stanford.

2. What is Snowman's overall destination?
(a) A mountain top.
(b) Crake's dome.
(c) Another group of Crakers.
(d) His old home.

3. Why are the Crakers purring around Snowman?
(a) They want him to build them something.
(b) They want him to bring them food.
(c) They need his help.
(d) They are trying to heal him.

4. In what month does Jimmy graduate from high school?
(a) May.
(b) February.
(c) June.
(d) December.

5. How many fish does Snowman plan to tell the Crakers that he needs to eat per week?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What name does Crake suggest for Jimmy when Jimmy comes to work for him?

3. What does Crake give Jimmy before they go to the pleeblands?

4. What is evidence that Crake's experiment has failed?

5. What does CorpSeCorps question Jimmy about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

9. Why is the name of the dome (Paradice) significant?

10. What is significant about the names of the people who work at Paradice?

(see the answer keys)

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