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

2. What make up periods?
(a) Eras.
(b) Epochs.
(c) Decades.
(d) Advents and Periods.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?

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

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

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