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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of the park is not under constant monitoring from the control room?

2. According to Hammond, how many people have died during the construction on Hammond's park?

3. As the tour progresses, what glitch does Arnold see with the electric vehicles?

4. How many lizards were involved in the gruesome attack on the newborn baby?

5. What is the Cowan, Swain, and Ross attorney's mission when he accompanies Grant to the Costa Rican island?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the item given to the unidentified man from InGen at the meeting to plan the theft of the embryos.

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

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

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

7. As the group is traveling from the helicopter pad to the tourist compound after seeing the first dinosaurs, what do Grant and Malcolm discuss and why?

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

9. What view does Muldoon hold that often puts him at odds with the Jurassic Park owners?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dennis Nedry wears different masks in the story. Both a great computer programmer and the mastermind behind the theft of the frozen embryos, Nedry is a study in contradictions. Identify, then compare and contrast the different sides of Nedry. How would his master plan for the theft have been affected had he not employed his expert computer programmer identity? Why is it necessary for Nedry to wear different masks?

Essay Topic 2

John Hammond and Ian Malcolm meet two times in the story. Describe the situation surrounding each of these meetings. Then, examine how the first meeting impacted the second meeting.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Alan Grant with Donald Gennaro.

a. How are the two characters similar in terms of their professional lives? How are they different?

b. How are the two characters similar in their personality characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses? How are they different?

c. Both of these characters ultimately survive the ordeal on the Costa Rican island. Was each character's survival a result of their own doing or a result of dumb luck? Support your reasoning.

d. Looking forward, how might this ordeal have affected each of these men as they moved forward with their lives? Would they be similarly affected or not? Explain your answers and your reasoning.

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