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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. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Progressive Development.
(b) Theopathsis.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Historical Limitation.

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

3. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) After his son stumbled upon it.
(b) After his pistol whipped the dust.
(c) Before his son fell onto the Shale.
(d) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.

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

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?
(a) Walcott.
(b) Sebastian.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Des Collins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?

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

4. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

5. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

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