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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 many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Ninety-eight.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

2. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Conway Morris.
(b) Derek Briggs.
(c) Whittington.
(d) Simeon Martin.

3. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(b) A new research paradigm.
(c) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(d) A leftover historical paradigm.

4. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) After his pistol whipped the dust.
(b) Before his son fell onto the Shale.
(c) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.
(d) After his son stumbled upon it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

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

4. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

5. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?

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