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  • 1. Which director directed the 1993 film adaptation of Jurassic Park?
A) David Koepp
B) Michael Crichton
C) F. H. Cornish
D) Steven Spielberg
  • 2. Which company distributed the 1993 film adaptation?
A) Macmillan Publishers
B) Universal Pictures
C) Macmillan Heinemann ELT
D) Grosset & Dunlap
  • 3. In what year did Universal Pictures acquire the film rights to the novel?
A) 1990
B) 1997
C) 1993
D) 1995
  • 4. Who eventually took over the film's screenplay after Crichton's early work?
A) F. H. Cornish
B) David Koepp
C) Steven Spielberg
D) Gail Herman
  • 5. What type of dialogue did the film adaptation excise much of?
A) Romantic dialogue
B) Scientific dialogue
C) Political dialogue
D) Philosophical dialogue
  • 6. What explicit violence did Crichton include in his novel?
A) Poisoning
B) Drowning
C) Electrocution
D) Evisceration
  • 7. What was the title of Crichton's sequel novel published in 1995?
A) The Lost World: Jurassic Park
B) The Lost World
C) Jurassic World
D) Jurassic Park II
  • 8. In what year was the film adaptation titled The Lost World: Jurassic Park released?
A) 2001
B) 2015
C) 1993
D) 1997
  • 9. In what year was Jurassic Park III released?
A) 1997
B) 1993
C) 2001
D) 2015
  • 10. In what year did the Jurassic World series begin?
A) 1993
B) 2015
C) 1997
D) 2001
  • 11. Who rewrote the authorised shorter version of the novel in 1995?
A) Gail Herman
B) F. H. Cornish
C) Donald Harley
D) David Koepp
  • 12. Who illustrated the 1995 learner-oriented adaptation of the novel?
A) Donald Harley
B) Michael Crichton
C) Steven Spielberg
D) F. H. Cornish
  • 13. Which publisher released the learner-oriented adaptation for English learners?
A) Paramount Pictures
B) Macmillan Publishers
C) Universal Pictures
D) Grosset & Dunlap
  • 14. What reading level is the learner-oriented adaptation of Jurassic Park rated?
A) Advanced
B) Intermediate
C) Elementary
D) Beginner
  • 15. Who wrote Jurassic Park: The Junior Novelization along with Michael Crichton and David Koepp?
A) F. H. Cornish
B) Gail Herman
C) Donald Harley
D) Steven Spielberg
  • 16. Which publisher released Jurassic Park: The Junior Novelization in 1993?
A) Universal Pictures
B) Grosset & Dunlap
C) Macmillan Heinemann ELT
D) Macmillan Publishers
  • 17. What is Jurassic Park: The Junior Novelization directly based on?
A) The sequel novel
B) The 1993 film
C) The original novel
D) Jurassic Park III
  • 18. What role did Steven Spielberg have in the film series after directing the first two films?
A) Lead actor
B) Novel author
C) Screenwriter
D) Executive producer
  • 19. Who wrote the 1990 science fiction novel Jurassic Park?
A) Michael Crichton
B) Steven Spielberg
C) John Hammond
D) Lewis Dodgson
  • 20. In what year do the unusual animal attacks occur in Costa Rica at the start of the plot?
A) 1989
B) 1995
C) 1993
D) 1990
  • 21. Which extinct dinosaur is suggested to be involved in the Costa Rican animal attacks?
A) Procompsognathus
B) Velociraptor
C) Dilophosaurus
D) Tyrannosaurus rex
  • 22. What is Alan Grant's profession?
A) Paleobotanist
B) Biotechnologist
C) Mathematician
D) Paleontologist
  • 23. What is Ellie Sattler's profession?
A) Paleontologist
B) Veterinarian
C) Biotechnologist
D) Paleobotanist
  • 24. Who is the billionaire and founder of InGen?
A) Martin Gutierrez
B) Donald Gennaro
C) John Hammond
D) Lewis Dodgson
  • 25. What is the name of the remote island where the biological preserve is established?
A) The Lost World
B) Isla Nublar
C) Costa Rica
D) Biosyn
  • 26. Where was the ancient DNA found that was used to recreate the dinosaurs?
A) In insects fossilized and preserved in amber
B) In dinosaur eggshells found in Costa Rica
C) Frozen inside supply boats
D) Deep in the waterworks of the park
  • 27. What genetic flaw were the park's dinosaur specimens engineered with?
A) They have a resistance to electric fences
B) They are unable to become males
C) They cannot survive in tropical storms
D) They are lysine deficient
  • 28. What is Ian Malcolm's profession and specialty?
A) Chief programmer and engineer
B) Mathematician and chaos theorist
C) Lawyer and investor
D) Paleontologist and game warden
  • 29. Who is Donald Gennaro?
A) An EPA official
B) A lawyer representing the investors
C) The chief programmer
D) A Biosyn employee
  • 30. What are the names of John Hammond's grandchildren who join the tour?
A) John and Henry Wu
B) Alan and Ellie Grant
C) Dennis and Ed Regis
D) Tim and Alexis 'Lex' Murphy
  • 31. Who is the senior engineer of the park?
A) Henry Wu
B) John Arnold
C) Robert Muldoon
D) Ed Regis
  • 32. Who is the park's biotechnologist?
A) Harding
B) Dennis Nedry
C) Henry Wu
D) John Arnold
  • 33. Who is the game warden of the park?
A) Lewis Dodgson
B) Ed Regis
C) Donald Gennaro
D) Robert Muldoon
  • 34. Who serves as the PR director of the park?
A) Dennis Nedry
B) Martin Gutierrez
C) John Hammond
D) Ed Regis
  • 35. Who is the chief programmer of the park?
A) Dennis Nedry
B) Henry Wu
C) John Arnold
D) Lewis Dodgson
  • 36. Who is the park's veterinarian?
A) Harding
B) Martin Gutierrez
C) Alan Grant
D) Ellie Sattler
  • 37. What kind of dinosaur eggshell does Grant find while touring the park?
A) Velociraptor
B) Tyrannosaurus rex
C) Dilophosaurus
D) Procompsognathus
  • 38. What natural phenomenon allowed some female dinosaurs to become males?
A) Dichogamy
B) Amber fossilization
C) Lysine deficiency
D) Chaos theory
  • 39. What type of DNA caused the dinosaurs to change sex?
A) Frog DNA
B) Avian DNA
C) Amphibian DNA
D) Reptilian DNA
  • 40. Why did the park's automated tally system fail to detect newborn dinosaurs?
A) Frog DNA corrupted the computer's memory
B) The system was destroyed by the Tyrannosaurus rex
C) Dennis Nedry deleted the tally system during his sabotage
D) It was programmed to allow operators to input the expected number of dinosaurs
  • 41. Why does Dennis Nedry commit corporate espionage?
A) Hammond refused to pay him for months of overwork
B) He wanted to expose the park to the EPA
C) He was blackmailed by Donald Gennaro
D) He wanted to take over Jurassic Park himself
  • 42. Which rival company does Dennis Nedry steal embryos for?
A) Air Vigilance Service
B) The Lost World
C) InGen
D) Biosyn
  • 43. Who is Lewis Dodgson?
A) An employee of InGen's rival, Biosyn
B) The senior engineer of Jurassic Park
C) An American doctor living in Costa Rica
D) An EPA official visiting the park
  • 44. How does Nedry disable the park's security systems?
A) By blowing up the electric fences with dynamite
B) By destroying the main generators manually
C) By tricking John Arnold into a reboot
D) By activating a backdoor he wrote into the park's software
  • 45. What weather event causes Nedry to become lost while attempting to rendezvous with Dodgson's agent?
A) A hurricane
B) A tropical storm
C) A volcanic eruption
D) A massive earthquake
  • 46. What dinosaur kills Dennis Nedry?
A) Velociraptor
B) Dilophosaurus
C) Procompsognathus
D) Tyrannosaurus rex
  • 47. How did dinosaurs escape the island before the power went out?
A) By stowing away on supply boats
B) By jumping over the electric fences
C) By swimming across the ocean
D) By escaping on the Air Vigilance Service planes
  • 48. Which dinosaur enclosure is the tour group stranded next to when the power turns off?
A) Dilophosaurus
B) Velociraptor
C) Tyrannosaurus rex
D) Procompsognathus
  • 49. Which character is eaten by the Tyrannosaurus rex after the power fails?
A) Gennaro
B) Arnold
C) Regis
D) Malcolm
  • 50. Who is severely injured by the Tyrannosaurus rex and left behind?
A) Tim
B) Malcolm
C) Muldoon
D) Grant
  • 51. Who finds Malcolm and leaves him in Harding's care?
A) Muldoon and Gennaro
B) Grant and Sattler
C) Tim and Lex
D) Arnold and Wu
  • 52. What happens when John Arnold tries rebooting the control room's systems?
A) It triggers a self-destruct sequence for the island
B) It leaves the main generators turned off and relies on the overtaxed auxiliary generator
C) It locks the control complex doors permanently
D) It instantly restores full power to all electric fences
  • 53. Which dinosaurs escape their enclosure and kill John Arnold and Henry Wu?
A) Tyrannosaurus rex
B) Dilophosaurus
C) Velociraptors
D) Procompsognathus
  • 54. How do Grant and the children make their way back to the island's control complex?
A) By riding on supply boats
B) By driving Nedry's stolen jeep
C) By rafting down a river
D) By hiking through the waterworks
  • 55. Who restarts the main generators and regains control of the park's systems?
A) Nedry and Dodgson
B) Muldoon and Gennaro
C) Arnold and Wu
D) Grant and Tim
  • 56. What does Gennaro do after Grant warns him that raptors are aboard the departing supply ship?
A) He calls the Air Vigilance Service for napalm
B) He hides in the park's waterworks
C) He contacts the ship and recalls it
D) He flees the island on a raft
  • 57. How does John Hammond die?
A) Killed by a pack of Procompsognathus after breaking his ankle
B) Eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex during the tour
C) Killed in the napalm bombing of the island
D) Killed by Velociraptors in the control complex
  • 58. Where do Grant, Sattler, Muldoon, and Gennaro discover a hidden dinosaur nest?
A) In the park's waterworks
B) In the Tyrannosaurus rex enclosure
C) Inside the control complex
D) On the departing supply ship
  • 59. What is the apparent fate of Ian Malcolm after being left behind?
A) He escapes on the supply boat with Gennaro
B) He survives and helps Grant restart the generators
C) He seemingly dies from his injuries
D) He is rescued by Dr. Martin Gutierrez
  • 60. How are the survivors evacuated from the island?
A) By the Air Vigilance Service
B) By swimming to Costa Rica
C) By a Biosyn rescue boat
D) By the departing supply ship
  • 61. What does the Air Vigilance Service do to the island after the evacuation?
A) Builds a new visitor center
B) Quarantines it with electric fences
C) Razes the island with napalm
D) Turns it over to the EPA
  • 62. Where are the survivors detained after being evacuated?
A) At an EPA headquarters in America
B) In a Biosyn research facility
C) In a Costa Rican hotel
D) On the supply ship
  • 63. Who visits Grant weeks after the incident at his detention in Costa Rica?
A) Lewis Dodgson
B) Dr. Martin Gutierrez
C) Donald Gennaro
D) John Hammond
  • 64. What is Dr. Martin Gutierrez's profession?
A) An American doctor who lives in Costa Rica
B) An EPA official investigating the animal attacks
C) A paleobotanist working with Ellie Sattler
D) A senior engineer at InGen
  • 65. What does Dr. Gutierrez inform Grant is migrating through the Costa Rican jungle?
A) A herd of genetically modified livestock
B) An unknown pack of animals implying surviving dinosaurs
C) A group of Biosyn spies
D) A swarm of amber-preserved insects
  • 66. When did Crichton begin working on the project that would become Jurassic Park?
A) 1981
B) 1990
C) 1973
D) 1983
  • 67. In what year did Crichton revive the idea for the project after his initial attempts?
A) 1981
B) 1973
C) 1990
D) 1988
  • 68. Which of Crichton's previous works did he initially feel the park idea was too similar to?
A) The Andromeda Strain
B) Westworld
C) Jurassic Park
D) Congo
  • 69. From whose perspective was the novel originally told in the early drafts?
A) Hammond's grandchildren
B) John Hammond himself
C) Ian Malcolm
D) Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler
  • 70. Who was the junior designer at Knopf tasked with creating the book cover?
A) Henry Fairfield Osborn
B) Chip Kidd
C) John Hammond
D) Alfred A. Knopf
  • 71. Which organization published a special edition of Jurassic Park for its 30th anniversary in 2020?
A) The Folio Society
B) American Museum of Natural History
C) Penguin Random House
D) Alfred A. Knopf
  • 72. How many illustrations were featured in the 2020 special edition of the book?
A) Three
B) Six
C) Twelve
D) Ten
  • 73. What dystopian potentialities does Jurassic Park critique?
A) Ancient history
B) Political corruption
C) Modern science
D) Industrial pollution
  • 74. What word is used to epitomize the final condition of the park?
A) Chaos
B) Hell
C) Extinction
D) Ruins
  • 75. Which 1818 novel by Mary Shelley has plot similarities to Crichton's book?
A) The Last Man
B) Mathilda
C) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
D) Lodore
  • 76. Henry Wu's inability to name his creations alludes to which character's similar flaw?
A) Sean Guynes
B) Andrew Ferguson
C) Dale Speirs
D) Victor Frankenstein
  • 77. What do the immoral actions of creation without understanding lead to?
A) Global peace
B) Scientific enlightenment
C) Human destruction
D) Financial prosperity
  • 78. Whose vengeance on his creator does human destruction echo in the novel's thematic comparison?
A) The creature's
B) The investor's
C) The dinosaur's
D) The scientist's
  • 79. Who noted that Jurassic Park resembles Katharine Metcalf Roof's Weird Tales story?
A) Dale Speirs
B) Andrew Ferguson
C) Sean Guynes
D) Gene Lyons
  • 80. In which publication did Dale Speirs write about 'Vanished Worlds'?
A) Opuntia
B) The New York Times
C) Entertainment Weekly
D) Tor.com
  • 81. What do dinosaurs hatch from in Katharine Metcalf Roof's story?
A) Amber samples
B) Frozen tissue
C) Millions-of-years-old eggs
D) Synthetic incubators
  • 82. Treating re-created dinosaurs as commodities ultimately led to what?
A) Immense financial profit
B) Eventual catastrophe
C) Global scientific collaboration
D) Peaceful coexistence
  • 83. How did critics generally review the book upon its release?
A) Apathy and silence
B) Largely favorable reviews
C) Mixed reviews with zero praise
D) Universally negative reviews
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