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

2. What make up periods?
(a) Decades.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Epochs.
(d) Eras.

3. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) A territory of British Columbia.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.

4. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(b) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?

2. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

3. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?

4. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

5. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?

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