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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. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Several.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) None.
(d) Few.

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of rodents.
(b) The development of smaller mammals.
(c) The development of large mammals like humans.
(d) The development of large tortoises and sharks.

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(c) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.
(d) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.

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

5. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Phyla to species.
(b) Kingdom to species.
(c) Orders to genera.
(d) Phyla to classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What make up periods?

2. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

3. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

4. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

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