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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 which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(b) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.

2. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?
(a) Minillera.
(b) Hartoll.
(c) Marrella.
(d) Splendens.

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.
(c) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(d) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

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

3. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

4. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

5. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

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