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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Three.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Four.
(d) Ninety-eight.

2. What is the fourth major contingency?
(a) The disparity of contemporary fauna.
(b) The death of postmodern fauna.
(c) The lack of fauna.
(d) Cambrian origin of modern fauna.

3. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Vertebrate types.
(b) Invertebrate types.
(c) Types and sub-types.
(d) Six types.

4. What does Chapter 4 argue that the story of history is about?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Contingency.
(c) Historicity.
(d) Majority.

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Compensatory cost.
(b) Psychological cost.
(c) Monetary cost.
(d) Physical cost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

2. What did Morris push Whittington to do?

3. Which class did Whittington's dissenter say Aysehaia should be in?

4. What make up periods?

5. What is the first major contingency?

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