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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 does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(b) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.

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

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

4. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?
(a) A old, more accurate version and a newer, less accurate version.
(b) A newer, less accurate version and an older, more accurate version.
(c) Two of more or less the same version.
(d) An old, less accurate version and a newer, more accurate version.

5. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution is progress.
(b) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.
(c) Evolution always involves progress.
(d) Evolution is scattered progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

3. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

4. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?

5. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

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