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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. At the end of the flashback, how long has Jimmy been working at Anoo Yoo?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 9 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 1 year.

2. Where does Jimmy get a summer job?
(a) Crake's dome.
(b) Library.
(c) Movie theater.
(d) Restaurant.

3. What is evidence that Crake's experiment has failed?
(a) The structure the Crakers have built.
(b) The Crakers have started naming themselves.
(c) The Crakers learned to read.
(d) The Crakers are not dying early in age.

4. What does Snowman forget when he leaves the tower?
(a) A new sheet.
(b) Food.
(c) His shoes.
(d) The radio.

5. What is the occupation of the man who locked up Oryx?
(a) Genologist.
(b) Geographer.
(c) Writer.
(d) Pharmacist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snowman see in the building that he enters when he sees the twister?

2. What is one of the unknown human men carrying when the Crakers see them?

3. What does Snowman realize is missing from the building that he enters to escape the twister?

4. What do the Crakers say that the woman smelled like?

5. What name does Crake use to introduce Jimmy to his classmates?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the pleeblands.

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

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

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

5. How has Crake's experiment failed?

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

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

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

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

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

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