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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Background for the Burgess Shale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 100 thousand million years ago.
(b) 65 million years ago.
(c) 10 million years ago.
(d) 20 million years ago.

2. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) A territory of British Columbia.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) England.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) The Appalachian Mountains.
(d) Mt. Everest.

4. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Paleozoic Era.
(b) Maleozoic Era.
(c) Pezozoic Era.
(d) Mesozoic Era.

5. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Physical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Spiritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?

2. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?

3. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?

4. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

5. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?

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