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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 compose eras?
(a) Epochs and Ages.
(b) Times and Seasons.
(c) Advents and Periods.
(d) Periods.

2. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Sixty.

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

4. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has no single order.
(b) It has five orders.
(c) It has two orders.
(d) It has a single order.

5. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) The Canadian Rockies.
(d) A territory of British Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

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

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

4. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

5. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?

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