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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(b) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(c) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(d) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(b) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.
(c) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(d) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.

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

4. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Methodological and philosophical lessons.
(b) Religious and traditional lessons.
(c) Medieval and historical lessons.
(d) Conservative and biological lessons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?

2. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?

3. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?

4. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

5. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

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