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

2. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?
(a) A more mundane fashion.
(b) A sympathetic fashion.
(c) A reasonable fashion.
(d) A respectable fashion.

3. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?
(a) 225 million years ago.
(b) 355 million years ago.
(c) 225 thousand years ago.
(d) 20 thousand years ago.

4. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.
(b) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.
(c) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(d) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?

2. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

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

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

5. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

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