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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) Physical cost.
(b) Compensatory cost.
(c) Monetary cost.
(d) Psychological cost.

3. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
(a) The difference is vast.
(b) The difference is microscopic.
(c) The difference is close.
(d) The difference is minimalist.

4. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Amoebas.
(b) Vertebrates.
(c) Invertebrates.
(d) Viruses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?

2. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?

3. What is the Burgess Shale?

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

5. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?

(see the answer key)

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