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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. Where is the dig site located that Grant and Sattler are currently working?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Utah.
(c) Montana.
(d) Nevada.

2. What does Tina do when she notices the lizard on the Costa Rican beach?
(a) Tina calls to the lizard.
(b) Tina begins to draw the lizard.
(c) Tina finds her parents.
(d) Tina yells for help.

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

4. Who is John Arnold?
(a) The chief architect.
(b) The computer systems operator.
(c) The head engineer.
(d) The construction foreman.

5. What is the Cowan, Swain, and Ross attorney's mission when he accompanies Grant to the Costa Rican island?
(a) To derail the construction.
(b) To make sure Grant gives his support.
(c) To inspect Hammond's island.
(d) To assuage Hammond's investors.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Alan is getting ready to leave the dig site, what type of fossil is he worried about protecting until his return?

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

3. Where does the gruesome attack by lizards on a newborn baby take place?

4. According to Malcolm, how large is the full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex?

5. How many kinds of animals are originally supposed to be on Hammond's island?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. According to Malcolm, what is the difference between physics and chaos theory? Give examples for each.

7. According to the essay in the book's introduction, what is the purpose of genetic engineering research?

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

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

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

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