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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
(a) Acteria, Malaraia, Bulgara.
(b) Molaria, Sartrocercus, Asheais.
(c) Sartrocercus, Asheais, Actaeus.
(d) Molaria, Actaeus, Sartrocercus.

3. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?
(a) Fairly intuitive.
(b) Quite simple.
(c) Fairly easy.
(d) Quite complex.

4. What are the two Ps?
(a) Predilect and prominent.
(b) Primitive and precursor.
(c) Promotion and progressive.
(d) Progression and Promise.

5. What was once often a focus of the fauna?
(a) Yohoia.
(b) Marella.
(c) Amarella.
(d) Sidneyia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

2. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?

3. What make up periods?

4. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?

5. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

(see the answer key)

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