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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's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has no single order.
(b) It has a single order.
(c) It has two orders.
(d) It has five orders.

2. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Appalachian Mountains.
(b) England.
(c) The Canadian Rockies.
(d) Mt. Everest.

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

4. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.
(c) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(d) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.

5. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "plague."
(b) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(c) The idea of "symbiosis."
(d) The idea of "contingency."

Short Answer Questions

1. What compose eras?

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

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

4. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

5. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?

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