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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does "Dinosauria" mean?
(a) Terrible creature.
(b) Terrible lizard.
(c) Ferocious lizard.
(d) Ferocious creature.
2. At Levine's apartment, an entire wall has been dedicated to Levine's search for what?
(a) Animal X.
(b) Biosyn's spy.
(c) Site B.
(d) Aberrant creatures.
3. After overhearing the telephone conversation in the San Jose airport, who does Levine immediately call?
(a) Ian Malcolm.
(b) George Baselton.
(c) Doc Thorne.
(d) Sarah Harding.
4. Who first set forth the theory of evolution?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Luis Alvarez.
(c) George Cuvier.
(d) Luis Cuvier.
5. After Malcolm's lecture ends, who accompanies Malcolm as they walk across the open courtyard?
(a) Richard Levine.
(b) Stanley Erickson.
(c) Alan Grant.
(d) Sarah Harding.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much is the Biosyn spy being paid to spy on the people who had been involved with the InGen project?
2. What is the profession of the person walking with Malcolm across the open courtyard after the lecture ends?
3. Which island off the Costa Rican coast is leased to a German mining company?
4. According to Malcolm's speech, how many species of plants and animals are currently on the planet?
5. Before receiving the call regarding the animal carcass in Costa Rica, where is Levine working?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the other girls at school taunt Kelly?
2. What do the members of Malcolm's audience have in common?
3. What happens in the 1970s that leads scientists to wonder if human behavior could ultimately lead to extinction?
4. Why, in Malcolm's opinion, is his extinction theory untestable?
5. How does Dodgson convince the head of Biosyn to allow Dodgson one more opportunity to successfully gain the dinosaur DNA he has been seeking?
6. Why does Guitierrez lament the changing ethics of scientists?
7. Why is Jack Thorne, who was once a Stanford professor, much happier away from academia?
8. When Thorne and the children arrive at Levine's apartment, name three items that they find.
9. Why does Levine hire Kelly and Arby to run errands for him?
10. Describe the type of behavior that is common to all complex systems.
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