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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 many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1971.

3. What make up periods?
(a) Epochs.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Eras.
(d) Decades.

4. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Orders to genera.
(b) Phyla to classes.
(c) Phyla to species.
(d) Kingdom to species.

5. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(b) Dr. Doolittle.
(c) Charlie VanGuarden.
(d) Charles Walmont.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

2. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

3. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?

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

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

(see the answer key)

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