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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Malcolm, what is the characteristic human trait?
(a) Desire.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Sentience.
(d) Awareness.

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

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

4. Why can no one present discuss the events that transpired on InGen's Costa Rican island?
(a) InGen used anmesia drugs.
(b) No one wanted to relive the past.
(c) They signed non-disclosure agreements.
(d) Only Malcolm survived.

5. After overhearing the telephone conversation in the San Jose airport, who does Levine immediately call?
(a) Ian Malcolm.
(b) Doc Thorne.
(c) George Baselton.
(d) Sarah Harding.

6. What is the name of the man who, in the 1960s, imagines that dinosaurs are warm-blooded creatures?
(a) Edward James.
(b) Luis Alvarez.
(c) John Ostrom.
(d) Richard Owen.

7. 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) 1987.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1997.

8. At Levine's apartment, an entire wall has been dedicated to Levine's search for what?
(a) Site B.
(b) Biosyn's spy.
(c) Aberrant creatures.
(d) Animal X.

9. According to Malcolm, what are complex animals able to insulate themselves against?
(a) Behavioral changes.
(b) Catastrophic changes.
(c) Environmental changes.
(d) Miniscule changes.

10. What does Levine have a reputation for being?
(a) Criminal.
(b) Rude.
(c) Ruthless.
(d) Devious.

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

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

13. In the 1840s, who calls the giant fossils that he finds "Dinosauria"?
(a) Luis Alvarez.
(b) Edward James.
(c) John Ostrom.
(d) Richard Owen.

14. According to Malcolm, how long do most mammals survive?
(a) Seven million years.
(b) Four million years.
(c) Ten million years.
(d) One million years.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which island off the Costa Rican coast is leased to InGen?

3. Where does James learn that Site B is?

4. When Arby sees a strange looking memo at Levine's apartment, what does Arby realize he is looking at?

5. According to Malcolm's speech, what percentage of animals that have ever lived are now extinct?

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