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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What compose eras?
(a) Times and Seasons.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Epochs and Ages.
(d) Periods.

2. How many acts does the Burgess Drama have?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

3. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 20 million years ago.
(b) 10 million years ago.
(c) 65 million years ago.
(d) 100 thousand million years ago.

4. What is the second subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?
(a) Doomsday (There Are Final Answers).
(b) Wednesday (There Are No Final Answers).
(c) Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).
(d) Doomsday (There Are No Final Statements).

5. What does Gould focus on to bring the Burgess Shale into clear view?
(a) Technical perfection
(b) Des Collin's insight.
(c) Opabinia's dissection.
(d) Whittington's insight.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

2. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?

3. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

4. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?

5. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?

(see the answer key)

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