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