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

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

3. What compose eras?
(a) Epochs and Ages.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Times and Seasons.
(d) Periods.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

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

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

4. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?

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

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