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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 does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?
(a) The "Precambrian Explosion."
(b) The "Anthropological Explosion."
(c) The "Cambrian Explosion."
(d) The "Prezoaic Explosion."

2. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Compensatory cost.
(b) Physical cost.
(c) Monetary cost.
(d) Psychological cost.

3. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 65 million years ago.
(b) 10 million years ago.
(c) 100 thousand million years ago.
(d) 20 million years ago.

4. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?
(a) 47%
(b) 5%.
(c) 96%.
(d) 89%.

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(b) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(c) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(d) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

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

3. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

4. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

5. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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