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

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of smaller mammals.
(b) The development of rodents.
(c) The development of large mammals like humans.
(d) The development of large tortoises and sharks.

3. What make up periods?
(a) Advents and Periods.
(b) Epochs.
(c) Decades.
(d) Eras.

4. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Betrayed his own principles.
(b) Completely revamped scientific studies.
(c) Betrayed science's aims.
(d) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.

5. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Medieval and historical lessons.
(b) Religious and traditional lessons.
(c) Conservative and biological lessons.
(d) Methodological and philosophical lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

2. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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

5. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

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