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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. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charlie VanGuarden.
(b) Charles Walmont.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Dr. Doolittle.

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

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) Mt. Everest.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) The Appalachian Mountains.
(d) England.

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

5. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Fluffy.
(b) Unique.
(c) Severed.
(d) Normal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

2. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?

3. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?

4. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?

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

(see the answer key)

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