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WorksheetsOryx & Crake Chapter 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is being burned in the fire that Jimmy remembers as a child?
An old wooden house
A nearby forest
Thousands of banned books
Hundreds of domestic animals
What is implied is the cause of the deaths of the animals
Sabotage using a bioweapon
Overbreeding of farm stock
Uncontrolled animal experimentation
A huge celebration
How would you characterise Jimmy's parents' relationship?
They are still in love after many years of marriage
They are cold and aloof towards one another
They are intellectual equals
They fight often and for hardly any reason
What is the source of the disagreement between Jimmy's parents in Chapter 2.
Jimmy's Dad doesn't like his Mom's cooking
Jimmy's Dad joking about things that his Mom feels are inappropriate
Jimmy's Mom walks outside in her pajamas which angers Jimmy's Dad
Jimmy's Mom doesn't want his Dad discussing upsetting things over their meal
Pigoons were created as a source of compatible organs for human organ transplants. What other way was there to obtain an organ should you need one?
It was permissible to use the organs of convicted criminals
Purchasing an organ on the black market
You could get yourself cloned and use the clone organs
Organs could be grown in special organ laboratories
Pigoon is a portmanteau word (that is a work made up by putting two existing words together) Which two words is Pigoon made out of?
Pig + baboon
Pig + cartoon
Pigeon + baboon
Pig + cocoon
Where does Jimmy's father work?
OrganInc Farms
Organic Farms
Organised Farms
Organ Farm
What do the people who live in the Compounds call the cities?
bossville
the farmlands
the modules
the pleeblands
What method did Jimmy resort to to try and cheer his depressed mother up?
He learned to cook different dishes for her
He would bring her wine from the pleeblands
He would play the fool and mess around
He went out of his way to do well at school
What was Jimmy's mother's job at OrganInc before she stopped working?
A microbiologist who modified bioforms so that they wouldn't harm pigoons.
A tech genius who created protection for the Compound
A genetic engineer who created hybrid animals
A beautician who assisted all the women who lived in the Compound
