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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 5. The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia, 1979 - Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Progressive Development.
(b) Theopathsis.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Historical Limitation.

4. What did Act 3 explain?
(a) Opabinia is not an arthropod.
(b) Idotixis is not an arthropod.
(c) Opabinia is an arthropod.
(d) Idotixis is an arthropod.

5. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "contingency."
(b) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(c) The idea of "plague."
(d) The idea of "symbiosis."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morris push Whittington to do?

2. What is Canadaspis?

3. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

4. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

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

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