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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 composed of?
(a) Invertebrates.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Amoebas.
(d) Vertebrates.

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

3. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Weird insight.
(b) Normal insight.
(c) Distasteful insight.
(d) Unique insight.

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(b) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(c) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(d) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress

5. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

3. What make up periods?

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

5. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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