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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(b) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.

2. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The step and the bowl."
(b) "The chair and the ladder."
(c) "The cone and the rod."
(d) "The ladder and the cone."

3. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(b) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(c) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.
(d) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.

4. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Pitolimite fossils.
(b) Trilobite fossils.
(c) Bezoar fossils.
(d) Trixony fossils.

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(b) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(c) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(d) The dissipation of marine life was progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

2. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

3. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

4. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?

5. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

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