Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake"

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1. What is Snowman's given name? Jimmy Jeremy Donald Todd

2. What is a rakunk? an animal a weapon a vegetable a mineral

3. What colour eyes do the Crakers have? Green Brown Blue Hazel

4. Crake's given name is Glenn. Whom does Atwood imply he is named after? Glenn Gould Glenn Carruthers John Glenn Glenn Scarpelli

5. Snowman briefly has an activist roommate while attending university. She was a member of which group? Greenpeace Heaven's Horticulturalists Ecology Action God's Gardeners

6. What is the name of the highschool where Crake and Snowman first meet? BeWell High Monsanto High HelthWyzer High KromoKids Collegiate Institute

7. What is a crake? an Australian bird a South American reptile a Eurasian mammal an African insect

8. What is Snowman's Extinctathon codename? Oryx Thickney Crake Tapir

9. How did Oryx leave her family as a child? She was sold to a man to sell flowers in the street She ran away She was sold into a kiddie porn ring She didn't leave home as a child

10. What are pigoons used for prior to the collapse of civilization? Meat Harvesting organs Farm Work Pets

11. What is the name of the university Crake attends? Watson-Crick Cuvier Darwin Harvard

12. What did Jimmy name his pet rakunk? Teeth Bandit Killer Cutie-Pie

13. In Junior High, Jimmy insults people by calling them a "Cork-nut." This is a term meaning almond, used by Alex, a talking animal. Alex is a real animal. What kind of animal is he? a gorilla a chimpanzee a parrot a dolphin

14. What are the Pleeblands? Worker Compounds Shopping Malls Refugee Camps Free Cities

15. A disease brings about the collapse of civilization. How does this disease initially get released into the population? through genetically altered pollen by the approach of a near-earth comet through tainted meat in BlyssPlus pills

16. Is Snowman the last "real" human being on Earth? Yes No

17. What are caecotropes? partially digested feces, reingested to get full nutrients from food genetically modified plants genetically modified animals Industrially created rocks that release water into the environment

18. What is the security force called? Answer: (one word - short for Corporate Security Corps)

19. How does Jimmy's mother die? from the haemoragic fever mauled by a wolvog she doesn't die executed for being a revolutionary

20. Who might be called a neurotypical? someone who doesn' t take mind-altering drugs someone who isn't genetically enhanced someone who is not a genius someone who is sane

21. What do the Crakers bring Snowman once a week? a ceremonial object a Craker woman who is in heat a basket of fruit a cooked fish

22. What do the Crakers believe Snowman uses to talk to Crake? a telephone his watch a walkman his beer bottles

23. What is Oryx's job at Paradice? a prostitute to market BlyssPlus pills to research genetic mutations to teach the Crakers how to survive

24. What experimental food product horrifies Jimmy while he visits Watson-Crick? PorkyPops BeefieBytes ChickieNobs pigoons

25. What is remarkable about the rabbits that appear in this book? They have wings They are ten feet tall They cast a green glow They ruthlessly attack people