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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ian Malcolm's profession?
(a) Paleobiologist.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Scientologist.
(d) Astrophysicist.

3. What does Malcolm insist is just a technomyth?
(a) InGen's dinosaurs.
(b) Costa Rican aberrant animals.
(c) Conspiracies.
(d) Biosyn's espionage.

4. According to the story, in what year does Ian Malcolm give a speech in which he states that complex animals die out because of their behavior?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1987.

5. What does the back trailer house?
(a) Laboratory equipment.
(b) A shower.
(c) A storage unit.
(d) A sleeping area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What supposition does the person who stands and interrupts Malcolm's lecture present to Malcolm and his audience?

2. What is Malcolm known for amongst his peers?

3. What time is it in Africa when Thorne places a phone call to the other person who will be accompanying him and Malcolm on the trip to Costa Rica?

4. What does Levine learn about the handling of the carcasses that infuriates him?

5. According to Malcolm's speech, how many species of plants and animals are currently on the planet?

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