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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 is the name of Gennaro's wife?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Mary.
(c) Alexis.
(d) Ellie.

2. What is John Hammond's island off of the Costa Rican coast also known as?
(a) Isla Mubcan.
(b) Isla Rica.
(c) Isla Negla.
(d) Isla Nublar.

3. According to Regis, why does the Tyrannosaurus rex never venture out into the open during the daylight hours?
(a) The T-rex gets sunburned.
(b) The T-rex has sensitive eyes.
(c) The T-rex ambushes its prey.
(d) The T-rex sleeps during the day.

4. What type of baby dinosaur does the tour group meet when they enter the nursery?
(a) A baby raptor.
(b) A baby Tyrannosaurus rex.
(c) A baby stegosaurus.
(d) A baby triceratops.

5. How does the grandmother whose sleeping grandchild is bitten describe the lizard she sees?
(a) Brown with green stripes.
(b) Green with brown stripes.
(c) Green with red dots.
(d) Brown with red dots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the lizard on the Costa Rican beach catches Tina's attention?

2. Who is traveling in the second car for the tour through the animal enclosures?

3. Years before the story takes place, Malcolm worked as a consultant. Whom did Malcolm consult for?

4. What type of animal does Grant first see after landing on the island?

5. How does the researcher obtain the carcass of the lizard on the beach where Tina was attacked?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about the graph of the procompsognathida population worries Malcolm?

2. Why was Dr. Grant concerned about protecting the partially exposed fossil before he departed for Costa Rica?

3. What comprised the bulk of the work undertaken by the Tropical Diseases Laboratory?

4. Explain why paleontologists debate whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded animals.

5. Why was Gennaro not happy to have to make the trip to Hammond's island?

6. Why are the dinosaurs supposedly reliant on the food supplied to them by the Jurassic Park scientists? Why is this an important safety measure?

7. According to Dr. Wu, why did the scientists create so many procompsognathus?

8. What is Ian Malcolm's area of specialization and how does this area apply to Safari Island?

9. Even though the research doctor declared that Tina was attacked by a basilisk lizard, why does he continue to search for answers by returning to the beach where the attack took place?

10. Hammond tries to defend Jurassic Park by saying it's like a zoo. How does Malcolm respond to Hammond's defense of the park?

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