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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Malcolm contact to study the sample from the carcass he receives from Levine?
(a) Elizabeth Gelman.
(b) Sarah Harding.
(c) George Baselton.
(d) Ed James.

2. Who first set forth the theory of evolution?
(a) George Cuvier.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Luis Cuvier.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

3. What is the name of the man hired by Biosyn to help the company clean up its image?
(a) Marty Guitierrez.
(b) George Baselton.
(c) Lewis Dodgson.
(d) Dennis Nedry.

4. What is the name of Thorne's foreman?
(a) Eddie James.
(b) Eddie Carr.
(c) Ed Dodgson.
(d) Charles Ramsey.

5. Which island off the Costa Rican coast is leased to a German mining company?
(a) Isla Sorna.
(b) Isla Rica.
(c) Isla Nublar.
(d) Isla Talamanca.

6. What do complexity theorists term the behavior that is common to all complex systems?
(a) Self-defeating.
(b) Supportive iterations.
(c) Self-organizing.
(d) Didactic.

7. How much of Biosyn's money has Dodgson lost in his corporate espionage attempts?
(a) $1.75 million.
(b) $3.75 million.
(c) $1.25 million.
(d) $2.5 million.

8. What have the windows and walls of the research trailer been reinforced with?
(a) The same material used to build supersonic jet fighters.
(b) The same material used on the space shuttle.
(c) The same material used to shield submarines.
(d) The same material used on bullet trains.

9. According to the person who first notified Levine of the carcass, what does the Costa Rican government suspect the aberrant animals are the cause of?
(a) An unusually high number of missing pets.
(b) An unusual strain of cancer.
(c) An unusually high number of missing children.
(d) An unusual strain of encephalitis.

10. According to Malcolm's speech, how many species of plants and animals are currently on the planet?
(a) 30 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 70 million.

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

12. How long is the animal carcass that Levine studies on the Costa Rican beach?
(a) Seven feet.
(b) Five feet.
(c) Three feet.
(d) Four feet.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the person walking with Malcolm across the open courtyard after his lecture scheduled to return to the next day?

2. How much is the Biosyn spy being paid to spy on the people who had been involved with the InGen project?

3. In what year is extinction first demonstrated?

4. What does Malcolm consider the last 50,000 years to be in geological terms?

5. Where is the concept of a technomyth developed?

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