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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 is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Amoebas.
(b) Vertebrates.
(c) Invertebrates.
(d) Viruses.

2. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Historical Limitation.
(b) Progressive Development.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Theopathsis.

3. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.
(b) Evolution always involves progress.
(c) Evolution is progress.
(d) Evolution is scattered progress.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

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

3. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

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

5. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

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