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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. When are the high levels of iridium at the K-T boundary discovered?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1987.
(d) 2001.

2. In what year is extinction first demonstrated?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1786.

3. When is the infamous trip to Costa Rica actually made by Malcolm and the others for InGen?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1997.

4. What is the name of the man who first demonstrates that species become extinct?
(a) George Cuvier.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Ian Malcolm.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ian Malcolm's profession?

2. What does Malcolm insist is just a technomyth?

3. What is the title of the speech Malcolm is giving regarding extinction and complexity theory?

4. When Malcolm explains how active our planet is, which of the planet's features does he describe as being relatively new?

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

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