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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through First Configuration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Malcolm, why are humans so interested in the decline of the dinosaur?
(a) It may be preventable for humans.
(b) It foreshadows human destruction.
(c) It allowed humans to flourish.
(d) It is unexplored territory.

2. What is the profession of the person who stands and interrupts Malcolm's lecture?
(a) Paleontology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) History.

3. When Malcolm explains how active our planet is, which of the planet's features does he describe as being relatively new?
(a) Deserts.
(b) Ice caps.
(c) Grasslands.
(d) Rain forests.

4. Before receiving the call regarding the animal carcass in Costa Rica, where is Levine working?
(a) In Nairobi.
(b) In the Gobi Desert.
(c) In the Saharan Desert.
(d) In Cairo.

5. What does the "T' in K-T boundary stand for?
(a) Tertiary.
(b) Triple.
(c) Testing.
(d) Tyrannosaur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does InGen do when the company learns of John Hammond's death?

2. According to the Introduction, extinction is considered as unremarkable as what?

3. Why can no one present discuss the events that transpired on InGen's Costa Rican island?

4. Where does the person who interrupted Malcolm's lecture with his theory think the object of his theory might be located?

5. Malcolm dresses entirely in one color. What color is it?

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