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

2. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
(a) The difference is vast.
(b) The difference is minimalist.
(c) The difference is microscopic.
(d) The difference is close.

3. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.
(b) Reproduce them.
(c) Dissect them for a museum show.
(d) Cyrogenically preserve them.

4. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Mesozoic Era.
(b) The Cambrian Era.
(c) The Prestige Era.
(d) The Precambrian Era.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

2. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

3. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

4. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?

5. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

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