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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 does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?
(a) "Decimation and diversification."
(b) "Reconstruction and growth."
(c) "Annihilation and acceptance."
(d) "Agreement and speculation."

2. What are the two Ps?
(a) Promotion and progressive.
(b) Predilect and prominent.
(c) Primitive and precursor.
(d) Progression and Promise.

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

4. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Apathetic.

5. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?
(a) Mary J. Gold.
(b) Stephen Jay Gould.
(c) Marie Janine Gold.
(d) Steven Kay Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

3. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

4. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?

5. What did Gould note about the Burgess work at this time, in Act 5?

(see the answer key)

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