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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through First Configuration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of the person who stands and interrupts Malcolm's lecture?
(a) History.
(b) Paleontology.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Biology.

2. Where does the Costa Rican government assume that the aberrant animals are coming from?
(a) The islands.
(b) The desert.
(c) The jungle.
(d) The grasslands.

3. Why can no one present discuss the events that transpired on InGen's Costa Rican island?
(a) Only Malcolm survived.
(b) No one wanted to relive the past.
(c) They signed non-disclosure agreements.
(d) InGen used anmesia drugs.

4. When Malcolm explains how active our planet is, which of the planet's features does he describe as being relatively new?
(a) Rain forests.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Ice caps.
(d) Grasslands.

5. According to Malcolm, what are complex animals able to insulate themselves against?
(a) Behavioral changes.
(b) Catastrophic changes.
(c) Environmental changes.
(d) Miniscule changes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Levine is interested in the islands off the Costa Rican coast. Which island houses a Club Med resort?

2. According to the story, in what year does Ian Malcolm give a speech in which he states that complex animals die out because of their behavior?

3. In what year is extinction first demonstrated?

4. What does the "K" in K-T boundary stand for?

5. While other species in the animal kingdom fight for food, what do humans - in Malcolm's opinion - fight for?

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