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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Phyla to classes.
(b) Orders to genera.
(c) Phyla to species.
(d) Kingdom to species.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?

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

3. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?

4. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?

5. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

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