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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. How big was the elephant that Hammond used to carry around in a cage to help him in his fund-raising meetings?
(a) Fifteen inches.
(b) Nine inches.
(c) Twenty-four inches.
(d) Three inches.

2. How does the research doctor explain the symptoms that Tina experienced after being bitten by the lizard?
(a) As a tropical disease.
(b) As sunstroke.
(c) As a poisonous bite.
(d) As an allergic reaction.

3. Who is in charge of creating and controlling the dinosaurs?
(a) Dr. Hammond.
(b) Dr. Grant.
(c) Dr. Regis.
(d) Dr. Wu.

4. Who is the head of the Tropical Diseases Laboratory that Dr. Guitierrez sends the lizard carcass to?
(a) Dr. Cruz.
(b) Dr. Sattler.
(c) Dr. Stone.
(d) Dr. Grant.

5. What is kept in a locked room in the basement of the compound that only Muldoon has the key to?
(a) Cattle prods.
(b) Tranquilizers.
(c) Missiles.
(d) Tazers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Donald Gennaro react when he sees the island's animals?

2. How does John Hammond characterize Arnold?

3. What type of dinosaur do the tour group members first see as their tour begins through the park?

4. Which dinosaurs kill simply for the pleasure of killing?

5. Who provides the voice for the self-guided tour through the animal enclosures?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the report received from Dr. Stone's team initially allay Dr. Guitierrez's fears about the lizard?

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

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

4. When the group reassembles in the visitor building in order to begin their tour, Malcolm upsets Hammond. What does Malcolm do?

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

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. Why does Dr. Carter not believe Ed Regis' explanation of how the injured man helicoptered to the clinic was hurt?

8. While Sattler, Grant, and the veterinarian are trying to figure out why their dinosaur is sick, Malcolm shares with Gennaro his theory of life. What does Malcolm believe and believes is confirmed through chaos theory?

9. The feeling at Cowan, Swain, and Ross is that John Hammond can no longer be trusted. Why?

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

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