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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. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Arthropod types.
(b) Mollusk types.
(c) Regenerative types.
(d) Cilial types.

2. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(b) A new research paradigm.
(c) A leftover historical paradigm.
(d) A provoking platonic paradigm.

3. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1971.

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

5. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?
(a) Classify the specimen in taxonomy.
(b) Categorize each file according to specimen.
(c) Naturalize the environment and take samples.
(d) Write a monograph on observation alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"

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

3. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

4. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

5. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

(see the answer key)

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