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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(b) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.
(c) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(d) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.

2. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Precambrian Era.
(b) The Cambrian Era.
(c) The Prestige Era.
(d) The Mesozoic Era.

3. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "plague."
(b) The idea of "contingency."
(c) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(d) The idea of "symbiosis."

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(b) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(c) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(d) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.

5. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The chair and the ladder."
(b) "The step and the bowl."
(c) "The ladder and the cone."
(d) "The cone and the rod."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

2. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

3. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?

4. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

5. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

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