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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. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 10 million years ago.
(b) 65 million years ago.
(c) 20 million years ago.
(d) 100 thousand million years ago.

2. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?
(a) Quick, rash development.
(b) Unchanging development.
(c) Regressing development.
(d) Gradual, progressive development.

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

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

5. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?
(a) 89%.
(b) 96%.
(c) 47%
(d) 5%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What make up periods?

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

3. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

4. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

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

(see the answer key)

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