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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Cilial types.
(b) Arthropod types.
(c) Regenerative types.
(d) Mollusk types.

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

4. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Derek Briggs.
(b) Whittington.
(c) Simeon Martin.
(d) Conway Morris.

5. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?
(a) A "Pre-Cambrian Finality."
(b) A "Mesozoic Mishap."
(c) A "Palentologic Fortune."
(d) A "Cambrian Generality."

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?

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

3. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?

4. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

5. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

(see the answer key)

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