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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. How does Crake's father die?
(a) He got hit by a car.
(b) He was in a car accident.
(c) He drowned himself.
(d) He jumped off an overpass.

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

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

4. What is the name of the prophylactic pill that Crake talks about?
(a) ExtraPlus.
(b) HappyPlus.
(c) AnooPlus.
(d) BlyssPlus.

5. Where does Snowman spend his first night of the journey?
(a) In the forest.
(b) A random home.
(c) The watch tower.
(d) His former home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snowman shout into the radio?

2. What is the occupation of Jimmy's live-in girlfriend?

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

4. What is at the entrance to RejoovenEsense?

5. What do the Crakers see when they leave Crake's dome?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?

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

7. Describe the interactions between Jimmy and Crake in college.

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

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

10. What is represented in Snowman leaving the radio behind?

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