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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Malcolm insist is just a technomyth?
(a) Conspiracies.
(b) Costa Rican aberrant animals.
(c) Biosyn's espionage.
(d) InGen's dinosaurs.

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

3. Where is the person walking with Malcolm across the open courtyard after his lecture scheduled to return to the next day?
(a) Beirut.
(b) London.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Houston.

4. Where does the person who interrupted Malcolm's lecture with his theory think the object of his theory might be located?
(a) In Brazil.
(b) In Egypt.
(c) In Costa Rica.
(d) In Africa.

5. What is another name for chaos theory?
(a) Linear dynamics.
(b) Nonlinear sequences.
(c) Nonlinear dynamics.
(d) Extinction sciences.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Malcolm, how long do most species survive?

2. According to Malcolm, how long do most mammals survive?

3. Who first set forth the theory of evolution?

4. When the second helicopter arrives on the Costa Rican beach, what do the second helicopter's occupants do to the carcass?

5. What is the name of the man who first demonstrates that species become extinct?

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