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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Background for the Burgess Shale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has no single order.
(b) It has two orders.
(c) It has five orders.
(d) It has a single order.

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.
(b) Betrayed his own principles.
(c) Completely revamped scientific studies.
(d) Betrayed science's aims.

3. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(b) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(c) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(d) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.

4. 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) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(d) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.

5. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Weird insight.
(b) Normal insight.
(c) Distasteful insight.
(d) Unique insight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?

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

5. What is the Burgess Shale?

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