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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. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Mesozoic Era.
(b) Paleozoic Era.
(c) Pezozoic Era.
(d) Maleozoic Era.

2. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) A territory of British Columbia.

3. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Physical.
(d) Spiritual.

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

5. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?
(a) "Agreement and speculation."
(b) "Decimation and diversification."
(c) "Annihilation and acceptance."
(d) "Reconstruction and growth."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?

4. What make up periods?

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

(see the answer key)

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