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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 is the man who locks up Oryx ordered to do for her?

2. What is at the entrance to RejoovenEsense?

3. How many dead bodies are inside the home on the compound that Snowman enters when he first arrives?

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

5. What does Snowman do to the people who are infected on the road?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How has Crake's experiment failed?

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

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

7. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.

8. Describe the pleeblands.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Crakers and the way they function in society. What are their lives like? In what ways are they simpler than humans? In what ways are they more complex?

Essay Topic 2

How do the pseudonyms presented become a motif in the novel? What do they tell us about the world Snowman lived in as a child and at the present?

Essay Topic 3

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

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