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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?
(a) A territory of British Columbia.
(b) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) The Canadian Rockies.

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

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

4. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Religious and traditional lessons.
(b) Methodological and philosophical lessons.
(c) Conservative and biological lessons.
(d) Medieval and historical lessons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

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

3. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

4. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

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

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