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

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

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

4. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The ladder and the cone."
(b) "The step and the bowl."
(c) "The cone and the rod."
(d) "The chair and the ladder."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

5. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

(see the answer key)

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