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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the people on the motorcycle chase the lone raptor, what type of dinosaur herd are they forced to drive through?
(a) A stegosaur herd.
(b) An apatosaur herd.
(c) A compy herd.
(d) A triceratops herd.

2. Where do Harding, Malcolm, and Kelly find the rest of the group?
(a) In the convenience store.
(b) In the manufacturing facility.
(c) At the helicopter pad.
(d) In a storage shed.

3. What do complexity theorists term the behavior that is common to all complex systems?
(a) Supportive iterations.
(b) Self-defeating.
(c) Didactic.
(d) Self-organizing.

4. According to Malcolm's discourse on the boat, which extinction event killed 80% of all life on the planet?
(a) The Permian extinction.
(b) The Triassic extinction.
(c) The Jurassic extinction.
(d) The Cretaceous extinction.

5. How high do the dinosaurs leap into the air in an attempt to reach the people in the high hide?
(a) Eight feet.
(b) Ten feet.
(c) Six feet.
(d) Five feet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Malcolm, animals living and dying against a very active background of our planet accounts for what percentage of extinction?

3. Who offers Sarah Harding a ride to Isla Sorna?

4. According to Malcolm, what are complex animals able to insulate themselves against?

5. Levine is upset to realize that someone has been to view the carcass before he arrives. Who beats Levine there?

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