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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. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Arthropod types.
(b) Mollusk types.
(c) Cilial types.
(d) Regenerative types.

2. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?
(a) "Annihilation and acceptance."
(b) "Decimation and diversification."
(c) "Agreement and speculation."
(d) "Reconstruction and growth."

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

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

5. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The chair and the ladder."
(b) "The step and the bowl."
(c) "The cone and the rod."
(d) "The ladder and the cone."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?

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

3. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

4. Where is the Burgess Shale?

5. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?

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