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

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

3. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.
(b) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(c) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite
(d) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.

4. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Physical.

5. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Trixony fossils.
(b) Pitolimite fossils.
(c) Bezoar fossils.
(d) Trilobite fossils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Burgess Shale?

2. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?

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

4. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

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

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