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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. When Tim regains consciousness after the electric car he was riding in was attacked by the Tyrannosaurus rex, where is he?
(a) Near the compound
(b) In the river.
(c) In a tree.
(d) In a clearing.

2. What type of dinosaur comes near Tim after being attracted to the noise the Land Cruiser makes when it crashes?
(a) A celaphor.
(b) A tyrannosaurus.
(c) A stegosaurus.
(d) A compys.

3. After the survivors were evacuated from the island, what happens to the island?
(a) The island is bombed.
(b) The island is barricaded.
(c) The island is left alone.
(d) The island is burned.

4. What startles John Hammond as he walks through the compound musing about his next venture?
(a) The appearance of a raptor.
(b) The roar of a dinosaur.
(c) The sound of a helicopter.
(d) The sight of a dead body.

5. From the damage to one section of the park's fencing, where does the park staff realize the tyrannosaurus has gone?
(a) Towards the tourist compound.
(b) Into the sauropod paddock.
(c) Into the raptor pen.
(d) Down to the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is John Hammond?

2. What types of creatures are housed in the aviary?

3. As the raft Grant and the children are floating on continues down the river, they encounter two dilophosaurs at the river's edge and are reluctant to disturb them. What are the two dilophosaurs doing?

4. What kind of dinosaurs kills John Hammond?

5. What type of dinosaur does Sattler see while she and Harding are driving back to the compound in the Jeep? Sattler had seen this type of dinosaur in the fax that was sent to her and Grant at the dig site in Montana?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does finding the broken watch in the crumpled Land Cruiser give Muldoon hope that at least one of the children is still alive?

2. When Grant finds Gennaro in the truck at the generator's maintenance building, Gennaro is relieved to see him and relieved that the compys that had been surrounding the truck left when Grant approached. Grant is not surprised the compys didn't attack Gennaro. Why?

3. Explain why the computer only accounted for 238 dinosaurs on the island when there were, as proven through Malcolm's testing, more than 238 dinosaurs on the island.

4. After the power is restored and the systems are reset, Grant comments that equilibrium is being restored to the island. How is true equilibrium being reached on the island?

5. Describe the role that an animal's temperament plays in how tranquilizers affect the beast, as alluded to by Muldoon when he and Gennaro were about to attempt to tranquilize the T-rex.

6. After a system reset, why do all of the individual modules have to be brought online manually?

7. Nedry modifies the computer program in order to hide the theft of the embryos and buy enough time for him to meet the boat at the east dock. What exactly does Nedry program the computer to do?

8. Hammond is proud that the motion sensors cover 92% of the park. Malcolm maintains that the sensors are inadequate. Why?

9. When the sensors finally come back online, they do not locate Grant and Hammond's grandchildren. Why not?

10. Describe why Arnold is somewhat impressed by the code that Nedry had programmed in to the computer system to disable the system while Nedry stole the embryos.

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