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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Yohoia specialized for?
(a) A habitat.
(b) An environment.
(c) A kingdom.
(d) A species.

3. What did Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
(a) New stringents.
(b) Old tools.
(c) New methods.
(d) New tools.

4. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(b) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.
(c) Dissect them for a museum show.
(d) Reproduce them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

2. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

3. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

4. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?

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

(see the answer key)

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