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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?
(a) By helping destroy it.
(b) By helping save it.
(c) By helping complete it.
(d) By helping summon it.

2. What prevented Collins from excavating at Walcott's quarry?
(a) Philosophical reasons.
(b) Marginal reasons.
(c) Ecological reasons.
(d) Geological reasons.

3. What type of relationship does Gould say Oxford advisers have with their students?
(a) Little to no relationship.
(b) A strong relationship.
(c) A premature relationship.
(d) A mature relationship.

4. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?
(a) Merostomoids.
(b) Istoperoids.
(c) Momomoids.
(d) Cansteromoids.

5. What did Whittington next begin work on?
(a) Naraoia.
(b) Wiwaxia.
(c) Marella.
(d) Yohoia.

6. What is the third stage of the fauna?
(a) The introduction of the egg.
(b) The Pre-Cambrian explosion.
(c) The introduction of the spine.
(d) The Cambrian explosion.

7. How can Odaraia be described?
(a) The smallest trivalve arthropod in the shale.
(b) The largest trivalve arthropod in the shale.
(c) The largest vertebrate in the shale.
(d) The largest bivalve arthropod in the shale.

8. What complex creature did Morris decide to focus on?
(a) Trixolo.
(b) Normaia.
(c) Phylomari.
(d) Wiwaxia.

9. What is the seventh stage of development about?
(a) Sharks.
(b) Crustaceans.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Dinosaurs.

10. What is Canadaspis?
(a) A crustacean.
(b) A nervous system.
(c) A carapace.
(d) A squid.

11. What does Act 4 do?
(a) Skip to the fifth act.
(b) Slow things down.
(c) Speed things up.
(d) Keep things conservative.

12. According to Dolf Seilacher, what did early eukaryotes exhibit?
(a) A simplicity that could have led to more diversity.
(b) A complexity that could have led to narrower diversity.
(c) A complexity that could have led to more diversity.
(d) A simplicity that could have led to narrower diversity.

13. Where did Collins find another dig site?
(a) On the other side of the mountains.
(b) Five miles south of the original quarry.
(c) Five miles north of the original quarry.
(d) In Alaska.

14. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?
(a) None.
(b) Imagined.
(c) General.
(d) Distinct.

15. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?
(a) Ten more new fossils.
(b) Revolutionary changes and a new shift in perspective.
(c) No changes.
(d) Devastating news that his research was no longer financed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second stage of contingency describe?

2. What stage of contingency does the book focus on most?

3. What was once often a focus of the fauna?

4. What does Chapter 4 argue that the story of history is about?

5. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?

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