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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 Gould focus on to bring the Burgess Shale into clear view?
(a) Opabinia's dissection.
(b) Des Collin's insight.
(c) Whittington's insight.
(d) Technical perfection

2. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Physical cost.
(b) Compensatory cost.
(c) Psychological cost.
(d) Monetary cost.

3. What kind of category was it?
(a) The catch-all category.
(b) The classifying category.
(c) The satisfactory category.
(d) The memorable category.

4. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) Old instructional manuals.
(b) New techniques.
(c) New tossils.
(d) New fossils.

5. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Pezozoic Era.
(b) Paleozoic Era.
(c) Maleozoic Era.
(d) Mesozoic Era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of evidence concerning Opabinia is considered to be decisive?

2. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?

3. What type of example is Aysehaia?

4. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

5. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?

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