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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the speech Malcolm is giving regarding extinction and complexity theory?
(a) The Complexity of Life.
(b) Extinction and Life.
(c) Behavioral Theories in the Cretaceous Period.
(d) Life at the Edge of Chaos.

2. What does "Dinosauria" mean?
(a) Terrible lizard.
(b) Ferocious creature.
(c) Ferocious lizard.
(d) Terrible creature.

3. When the second helicopter arrives on the Costa Rican beach, what do the second helicopter's occupants do to the carcass?
(a) Dismember it.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Study it.
(d) Photograph it.

4. According to Malcolm, what is the characteristic human trait?
(a) Sentience.
(b) Awareness.
(c) Conformity.
(d) Desire.

5. 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) Ice caps.
(c) Grasslands.
(d) Deserts.

6. When Kelly goes into Thorne's office to say goodbye, who does she learn will be accompanying Malcolm and Thorne on the trip to Costa Rica?
(a) Sarah Harding.
(b) Lewis Dodgson.
(c) Beverly Ranson.
(d) Ed James.

7. According to Malcolm, animals living and dying against a very active background of our planet accounts for what percentage of extinction?
(a) 97%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 84%.

8. How much is the Biosyn spy being paid to spy on the people who had been involved with the InGen project?
(a) $1,500 per day.
(b) $500 per week.
(c) $500 per day.
(d) $1,500 per week.

9. What is Ian Malcolm's profession?
(a) Astrophysicist.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Scientologist.
(d) Paleobiologist.

10. According to Malcolm's speech, how many species of plants and animals have existed on the planet since life began?
(a) 10 billion.
(b) 50 billion.
(c) 30 billion.
(d) 70 billion.

11. How long has Malcolm been denying speculation regarding the InGen story?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Two years.

12. What is the name of the American biologist who flies Levine to see the animal carcass?
(a) Marty Guitierrez.
(b) Dennis Nedry.
(c) George Baselton.
(d) Lewis Dodgson.

13. Who first set forth the theory of evolution?
(a) Luis Alvarez.
(b) Luis Cuvier.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) George Cuvier.

14. What does the "T' in K-T boundary stand for?
(a) Triple.
(b) Tyrannosaur.
(c) Tertiary.
(d) Testing.

15. What is the name of the person who stands and interrupts Malcolm's lecture?
(a) Luis Alvarez.
(b) Sarah Harding.
(c) Richard Levine.
(d) Alan Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does InGen do when the company learns of John Hammond's death?

2. Where does the person who interrupted Malcolm's lecture with his theory think the object of his theory might be located?

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

4. Malcolm dresses entirely in one color. What color is it?

5. Who is the head of Biosyn?

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