Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. When Jimmy’s father takes Jimmy to a bonfire, what is burning?

A) Forest trees

B) Diseased animals

C) Overripe mangoes

D) Bottles of alcohol

2. What subject do Jimmy’s parents often argue over?

A) Money

B) School

C) Jimmy

D) Ethics

3. What does Jimmy’s father give him for his 10^th birthday?

A) A spliced pigoon

B) A tamed bobkitten

C) An engineered rakunk

D) A military wolvog

4. Why does Jimmy admire Alex the parrot?

A) He is thirsty, so he drinks rain runoff.

B) He is sick, so he takes Crake’s vaccine.

C) He is hungry, so he eats ChickieNobs.

D) He is fed up with his life, so he leaves.

5. What is the relationship between Jimmy and Glenn/Crake?

A) Jimmy is fatherless, while Crake is motherless.

B) Jimmy is unethical, while Crake is ethical.

C) Jimmy is pessimistic, while Crake is optimistic.

D) Jimmy is carnal, while Crake is cerebral.

6. Which trait shows Snowman to be an existentialist?

A) He believes life is meaningless.

B) He creates laws for the Crakers.

C) He values the power of language.

D) He accepts offerings of fish.

7. How would you classify Uncle En in relation to Oryx and the other children?

A) Adoption worker

B) Human trafficker

C) Travel guide

D) Key to a better life

8. What has Crake eliminated from human existence?

A) Conflict

B) Sex

C) Bodily functions

D) Love

9. Why does Crake believe his father died and Jimmy’s mother left?