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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 kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?
(a) An old, less accurate version and a newer, more accurate version.
(b) A newer, less accurate version and an older, more accurate version.
(c) A old, more accurate version and a newer, less accurate version.
(d) Two of more or less the same version.

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

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

4. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Precambrian Era.
(b) The Cambrian Era.
(c) The Prestige Era.
(d) The Mesozoic Era.

5. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

2. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

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

4. What compose eras?

5. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

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