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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 does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
(a) The difference is minimalist.
(b) The difference is vast.
(c) The difference is microscopic.
(d) The difference is close.

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

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

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

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?
(a) Walcott.
(b) Des Collins.
(c) Sebastian.
(d) Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

2. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

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

4. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?

5. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?

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