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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 Snowman's overall destination?
2. What does Snowman tell the Crakers to call the shore?
3. What stalls Snowman's journey?
4. What is the name of the Craker who tells Snowman that other humans passed through?
5. What watch tower does Snowman climb down to the ground from?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are guns missing from the dead guards?
2. Why does Snowman take in the Crakers and lead them to safety?
3. Why is the name of the dome (Paradice) significant?
4. What kills the people that Snowman finds in the house he visits?
5. What is significant about the names of the people who work at Paradice?
6. Snowman has a weird feeling about the home he visits on the compound. Describe these feelings.
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 are Snowman's feelings about humanity now that most have died?
10. Describe the people that Crake has engineered.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Crake and Jimmy. How are they similar? How do they change one another?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the way dreams are a motif in the novel. Why are dreams so important, and how is this shown?
Essay Topic 3
Crake shows what he thinks about language by changing it drastically. Metaphors can no longer be used because the Crakers do not understand them. Why do you think Crake intended on changing language so drastically?
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