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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 did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of smaller mammals.
(b) The development of large tortoises and sharks.
(c) The development of rodents.
(d) The development of large mammals like humans.

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

3. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?
(a) 225 million years ago.
(b) 355 million years ago.
(c) 20 thousand years ago.
(d) 225 thousand years ago.

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

5. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?
(a) The "Cambrian Explosion."
(b) The "Precambrian Explosion."
(c) The "Anthropological Explosion."
(d) The "Prezoaic Explosion."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

4. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

5. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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