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

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

3. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?
(a) The "Prezoaic Explosion."
(b) The "Cambrian Explosion."
(c) The "Precambrian Explosion."
(d) The "Anthropological Explosion."

4. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Completely revamped scientific studies.
(b) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.
(c) Betrayed science's aims.
(d) Betrayed his own principles.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Burgess Shale?

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

4. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

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