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? a vegetable a mineral a weapon an animal

3. What colour eyes do the Crakers have? Blue Green Brown 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 God's Gardeners Ecology Action Heaven's Horticulturalists

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 parrot a dolphin a chimpanzee a gorilla

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 in BlyssPlus pills through tainted meat by the approach of a near-earth comet

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

17. What are caecotropes? genetically modified animals partially digested feces, reingested to get full nutrients from food genetically modified plants 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 isn't genetically enhanced someone who doesn' t take mind-altering drugs someone who is sane someone who is not a genius

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

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? to market BlyssPlus pills a prostitute to teach the Crakers how to survive to research genetic mutations

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

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