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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 make up periods?
(a) Decades.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Eras.
(d) Epochs.

2. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Invertebrates.
(b) Vertebrates.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Amoebas.

3. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.
(b) Betrayed his own principles.
(c) Completely revamped scientific studies.
(d) Betrayed science's aims.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

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

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?

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

5. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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