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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and The Lost World Hypothesis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of the person walking with Malcolm across the open courtyard after the lecture ends?
(a) History.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Palentology.
(d) Biology.

2. Where does the person who interrupted Malcolm's lecture with his theory think the object of his theory might be located?
(a) In Brazil.
(b) In Egypt.
(c) In Africa.
(d) In Costa Rica.

3. What invention makes complexity theory possible?
(a) Computers.
(b) Text messaging.
(c) Video recorders.
(d) The internet.

4. According to Malcolm, animals living and dying against a very active background of our planet accounts for what percentage of extinction?
(a) 90%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 84%.
(d) 97%.

5. Where are high levels of iridium typically found?
(a) Soil.
(b) Desert.
(c) Moon rock.
(d) Meteors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two behaviors are of particular interest to the study of evolution?

2. At the time of his speech in August, how old is Malcolm?

3. According to Malcolm, why are humans so interested in the decline of the dinosaur?

4. Of the majority of animals that are now extinct, what percentage of those animals are accounted for due to mass killings?

5. When are the high levels of iridium at the K-T boundary discovered?

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