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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 many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Fifty.

2. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) Before his son fell onto the Shale.
(b) After his son stumbled upon it.
(c) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.
(d) After his pistol whipped the dust.

3. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?
(a) Des Collins.
(b) Sebastian.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Walcott.

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

5. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.
(b) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(c) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.
(d) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?

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

3. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?

4. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

5. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

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