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

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

3. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) Before his son fell onto the Shale.
(b) After his pistol whipped the dust.
(c) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.
(d) After his son stumbled upon it.

4. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The chair and the ladder."
(b) "The cone and the rod."
(c) "The step and the bowl."
(d) "The ladder and the cone."

5. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?
(a) "Reconstruction and growth."
(b) "Annihilation and acceptance."
(c) "Agreement and speculation."
(d) "Decimation and diversification."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

4. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

5. What is the Burgess Shale?

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