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