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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. People claiming to be press photographers entered and photographed Malcolm's office. What journal do the photographers claim to be from?
(a) Complexity Quarterly.
(b) Chaos in All.
(c) Bioethics and Nature.
(d) Chaos Quarterly.

5. According to the person who first notified Levine of the carcass, where have numerous other carcasses been turning up in Costa Rica?
(a) Near a small village.
(b) Near the town dump.
(c) Near a mining facility.
(d) Near a soybean farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ian Malcolm's profession?

2. What is the name of the man who, in the 1960s, imagines that dinosaurs are warm-blooded creatures?

3. According to Malcolm, what are complex animals able to insulate themselves against?

4. What is the name of the man hired by Biosyn to spy on the people who had been involved with the InGen project?

5. Who does InGen hire to publicly deny the rumors that surrounded InGen and the Costa Rican island?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the theory of evolution was first presented, there was very little debate. Why?

2. Why does Guitierrez lament the changing ethics of scientists?

3. Identify and describe the theory supported by the high levels of iridium at the K-T boundary.

4. What is reductionism? Is it useful in complexity theory or not?

5. Why do the other girls at school taunt Kelly?

6. Describe Ian Malcolm's feelings regarding the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor strike.

7. Why is Jack Thorne, who was once a Stanford professor, much happier away from academia?

8. A statue of a raptor is outside the biology department at the university where Malcolm works. Why does Malcolm think the statue of the velociraptor is insulting to the raptor?

9. Describe at least three types of systems that complexity theory has studied.

10. As no map of the Costa Rican island exists, how is Levine conducting his reconnaissance on the island?

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