Oryx and Crake

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?

A) They believed in contributing to the human lot.

B) They want to escape walled-up places.

C) They were aware of government conspiracies.

D) They no longer want to shut things out.

10. What does Crake think wiping out one generation of people will do?

A) Cause resurrection

B) Breed vegetation

C) Destroy civilization

D) Create security

11. Why was the destruction of humanity so complete?

A) The deadly germs were airborne.

B) People refused to stay in lockdown.

C) Citizens refused regular vaccines.

D) Animals evolved beyond humans.

12. What does Crake offer Jimmy without Jimmy knowing?

A) Unlimited access to his vices

B) Marriage to Oryx

C) Role in Crake’s masterplan

D) Dominance over the Crakers

13. Who has Crake hired to work at Paradice?

A) Engineered Crakers

B) His dead parents

C) Video-game grandmasters

D) Jimmy’s biotech father

14. What does Jimmy say about chaos?

A) It always favors humanity.

B) It always precedes growth.

C) It always organizes itself.

D) It always smells bad.

15. What two hard-wired human actions is Crake unable to eliminate in the Crakers?

A) Dreaming and singing

B) Eating meat and fiber

C) Praying and thinking

D) Drinking and smoking

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. In Chapter 13, Snowman comments that Crake is “still the ruler of his own domain.” Given that Crake’s physical body is dead, what does Snowman mean?

2. What has Crake speculated will be the downfall of the Crakers, and why?