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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Dinosauria" mean?

2. Who first set forth the theory of evolution?

3. What does Malcolm suggest as the reason for the extinction of complex animals?

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

5. At Levine's apartment, an entire wall has been dedicated to Levine's search for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Victorian-era scientists, what are dinosaurs like?

2. Describe the type of behavior that is common to all complex systems.

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

4. When Thorne and the children arrive at Levine's apartment, name three items that they find.

5. According to Malcolm's speech, what is life marked by?

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

7. According to Malcolm's speech, what is the average rate of extinction on the planet?

8. Why can complex systems only flourish at the "Edge of Chaos"?

9. Why does Levine hire Kelly and Arby to run errands for him?

10. According to the Biosyn spy, why is Levine teaching a class at Woodside Junior High?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Among those on Isla Sorna are the two stowaways, Kelly and Arby. Discuss the reasons the children decided to hide in the trailers, as well as Levine's reaction to their arrival. What role do the children serve in the larger story? Why does Crichton decide to write Kelly and Arby into the story at all? Be sure to support your answers with examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

There are many people who travel to Isla Sorna who do not leave Isla Sorna. Identify at least three people killed on the island. Compare and contrast each of these deaths being sure to indicate which character died, how the character died, and what impact on the overall plot the character's death had. What could have - or should have - been learned from each of these deaths by the island's survivors?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the overriding beliefs the following characters had before they went to Isla Sorna and how those beliefs were changed by the events that transpired on the island: Levine, Harding, Malcolm, and Thorne.

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